High levels of poison found in Rhineland water - Germany

High levels of poison found in Rhineland water - The Local: One of the affected areas in NRW is the Ruhr Valley, where much of the state's drinking water comes from, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung said. The paper gained access to figures from the state office for environment, which has been carrying out tests since 1992.

Of the 37,000 water samples taken from hundreds of lakes, ponds and rivers over the past two decades across the state, thousands contained a so-called biocide – in the worst case, one results showed 50 times more than the official limit.

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