Chemical Pollution, Dniester River
1983 • Russia
“In one of the worst ecological disasters in Soviet history, more than 500 kilometers of the Dniester River were poisoned in September 1983 following the collapse of an earthen dam holding concentrated salt wastes from a fertilizer plant.”
Josephson, Paul R. An Environmental History of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. Print. (page 201)
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