“I’ve never seen the river in such bad condition,” says a local angler. “The water is brown and smelly, it looks like sewage.”
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A deputy climate minister called the pollution from the German-owned tannery “appalling” and warned that it “cannot go unpunished”.
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Polish river hit by unexplained pollution, leaving wildlife dead
A 60km stretch of the Barycz River running close to nature reserves has been contaminated.
