Myanmar: Mandalay Industrial Zone Waste Water Poisons River

Mar 23, 2016 | Eleven Myanmar
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According to reports, over 90 factories in the Mandalay Industrial Zone in Pyigyidagun Township, have been dumping waste water into the Dunawadi River, depriving villages situated downstream of drinkable water and causing health problems. The waste water, which enters the river through a pipeline that discharges the water around the clock, has been tested and found to contain 450 per cent more arsenic than the law allows. Harmful waste water used to be dumped into the nearby northern and southern moats until June 2015. A wastewater treatment plant is being built, but it not expected to be complete for another two years.