This is where France wins the day imo, France does not get enough credit for how advanced their monitoring systems are in almost every field whether it be nuclear, their water systems, etc. I watched a documentary on it. Round the clock of monitoring of the finest details, especially on the public water supply... I found that really interesting, not to mention they were 10x more advanced in how they purified the water than the USA.
As much as I disliked France when I visited, they don't get enough credit, I am not sure I would say this kind of thing happens all over. Sweden is by all measures much more of a right wing country, as is Texas. I have yet to see an example from a far left country of this magnitude of negligence.
Not trying to bring politics in this, just stating how I see it before me.
I take it you never visited Sweden? I grew up in the late 70's and 80's, when Sweden was still a very socialist country. Very strange place to be, looking back at things.
Anyhow, Sweden does a lot of testing, at the water treatment plants. Mainly to see how much drugs there are in the sewage and these days they try to estimate how many has that thing that's going around.
i don't think i made myself clear.
At least i think in English discharge mean they did it (i just looked in the dictionary and it says its an action, someone choose to do it). What im saying is they should have tested it before doing it. It could easily been avoided and detected. They would have noticed the release of waste was toxic not just treated water.
That case in Sweden was a leak, it can happen, it's an accident, it can happen in our home pipes. There was no intentional discharge.
Right, well, discharge doesn't have to be on purpose, it can be by accident as well, or negligence, which is more likely in this case I would say.
Also, Europe is a big place.
Abandoned mines in Romania leech heavy-metal contaminated waters into rivers. A Hungarian chemical plant produces more than 100,000 tons of environmental toxins a year. Soil in eastern Slovakia is contaminated with cancer-producing PCBs.
www.nbcnews.com
When it comes to mining, Sweden has its own interesting problems, although I guess it's not quite fair to blame the mining company here.
en.wikipedia.org
As for foundries in general, they're doing more and more to recycle at least their own water, which will hopefully help reduce these kind of things in the future.
In these days of seemingly neverending chip shortages, more and greater varieties of semiconductors are in demand. Chip fabs around the world are now racing to catch up to the world's many microelectronic needs. And chip fabs need a lot of water to operate. Too much, they're realizing
spectrum.ieee.org
