Tunisia is the fifth largest exporter of phosphate in the world. But though its byproducts are toxic, one factory in the coastal city of Gabes still channels 13,000 tons of the dangerous pollutant into the sea every day...[I]t is here where the Tunisian Chemical Group built their factory in the early 1970s...The business has also put farmers' livelihoods and residents' health at risk. The hazardous emissions cause acid rain, with the toxins landing in the ground water...[Noureddine Trabelsi, divisional director for environmental concerns says] "We have problems with environmental pollution; we can't deny that...But the volition is there now, and we have to take advantage of that opportunity"...