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Hungary scrambles to build new dam to plug toxic leak [1]

Kolontar (Hungary): Workers raced to build an emergency dam in western Hungary on Sunday as cracks in a reservoir widened, threatening to unleash a second torrent of toxic sludge on the village of Kolontar and nearby rivers.

Publication Date: 
11/10/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Rivers [3], Aluminium Industry [4], Toxic Wastes [5], Hungary [6], Lung Cancer [7], Health Effects [8], Dams/ Irrigation [9]
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