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Artikel

30 Mai 2003

Autor:
Mohammad Shehzad, OneWorld South Asia

Toxins on Tap in Pakistan

With 62 percent of the 2.4 million people of the impoverished Kasur area in Pakistan's northern Punjab province suffering from serious ailments caused by industrial waste, health authorities warn that the country's water sources are turning into toxic cesspools. Swimming in muck are the capital, Islamabad, and Kasur, where waste-water from tanneries and industries, is being discharged into the country's waterways