September 19, 2006: Pollution in India

Pie · 09-20-2006, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by YellowBolt

Real nice job they did on the goddess there.

Yep. There's a lot of national shame over this issue...

glatt · 09-20-2006, 10:14 AM

When I was a kid, the waterfall in my hometown churned up tons of nasty brown foam like this. It would be a few feet deep and smell pretty bad. I'm not sure what changed, but it's much cleaner now. The detergents in the water got reduced somehow. Do/did paper pulp mills use lots of detergents?

09-20-2006, 10:14 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	When I was a kid, the waterfall in my hometown churned up tons of nasty brown foam like this. It would be a few feet deep and smell pretty bad. I'm not sure what changed, but it's much cleaner now. The detergents in the water got reduced somehow. Do/did paper pulp mills use lots of detergents?

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