Mercury poisoning in Siberia
There had been many cases which mercury had been released into the river by accidental factors like the one in Japan, Minimata Bay in 1952.It caused around 70 people to die and hundreds to be sick due to mercury poisoning.
This shows that mercury is actually a very toxic substance and they could affect us in many ways. Pregnant women and new born babies could harm their nervous system. This could also cause damage to their intestine and cause headaches, respiratory problems. This could also become more dangerous when the temperature reaches 30 degrees as the mercury will tend to evaporate.
People who drank water containing these mercury even die and had mercury found in their bodies. This would shows that the mercury is very poisoning. Thus when there is a release of mercury into the water, it would be very dangerous for those people living nearby the river as they will be affected even if they just breathe in these mercury.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2062595.stm
My point of view
From what I can understand, there should be measures taken into protecting the mercury plant from emitting any form of mercury so that the people living nearby will not suffer. This can be done though many ways and they can also help the people in this way.
Not asking for a big sum of money, but just enough money to help in cleaning the river will do the people well who live near these mercury plants. But the best way out will be preventing the mercury from leaking into the river as they would cause a huge problem of pollution to the environment.
20-05-07 8.03pm
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