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20 extreme photos of water pollution around the world

Jul 26, 2021, 12:45 IST

An oil-covered brown pelican sits in a pool of oil in Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery, Louisiana following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which began on April 20, 2010. This photo was taken in June, 2010.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill swirls in various colors in shallow water in East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana on June 8, 2010, nearly two months after the spill began.

Oil mixes with water from the Exxon Silvertip Pipeline oil spill that occurred in July, 2011 along the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Montana. The accident spewed 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the river.

A footprint in the mud six days after red toxic sludge flooded the village of Devecser, Hungary on October 4, 2010. One million cubic meters of red mud burst out of a sludge reservoir, killing 10, injuring more than 120, and flooding three local villages and fouling rivers including a tributary of the Danube.

An aerial view of oil that seeped from a well at Frade, on the waters of Campos Basin in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil November 18, 2011.

A river polluted after a spill from the 'Dos Senores' gold and silver mine in Concordia in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. About 10,800 tons of toxic waste from the 'Dos Senores' mine were spilled after a millpond broke and shuttled the waste to a stream of the Baluarte river. This photo was taken on October 17, 2014.

A dead ram decomposes on the boundaries of the Doñana National Park in Spain one week after 5 million cubic meters of acidic toxic fluid spilled from a nearby mine. The spill burned and killed vegetation in the area. This photo was taken on May 2, 1998.

A line of soldiers clean up oil that spilled from the "Prestige" oil tanker near the coastal town of Muxía on Spain's North West Atlantic coast on January 27, 2003.

A branch from the "Dirty River" in Braullio Carrillo National Park in San José, Costa Rica is colored yellow and brown by the minerals leached from the active Irazu Volcano. The clear water filtered by the tropical rainforest can be seen mixing with the dirty water. This photo was taken on June 5, 2012.

A Brazilian fisherman observes a dead bull near the shore of the Paraíba do Sul river, about 225 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, on April 8, 2003. A toxic waste spill of 320 million gallons from a factory in Minas Gerais state tainted the water supply of seven cities in Minas Gerais and the neighboring state of Rio de Janeiro. The spill contained waste from the pulp bleaching process, which was mainly composed of caustic soda. It left some 600,000 people without a regular water supply.

Oil floats on the water near an oil production facility at Maracaibo lake near the Venezuelan coastal town of Barranquitas on August 15, 2011. This region had suffered several leaks from old pipes and pumps.

An oil slick formed along the coast of Refugio State Beach in Goleta, California on May 19, 2015 after a pipeline burst that day.

Volunteers carried buckets of oil from an oil slick along the coast of Refugio State Beach in Goleta, California on May 20, 2015.

Yellow mine waste water pools at the entrance of the Gold King Mine in San Juan County, Colorado on August 5, 2015. A contaminated plume of waste water accidentally released from a Colorado gold mine by U.S. environmental agency workers spread downstream and reached northern New Mexico.

Brown sludge accumulates near the scene of a fuel spill into the St. Lawrence River from a Suncor-owned refinery in Montreal on September 29, 2010. The spill was a mixture of diesel and water.

A waste pit near a jungle clearing close to the Amazonian town of Sacha in Ecuador is filled with crude oil left by drilling operations years earlier. This photo was taken on October 21, 2003.

A damaged reservoir near an alumina plant seen from the air in the Hungarian village of Kolontár in Budapest on October 9, 2010.

A villager carries buckets of his daily drinking water from a white, polluted stream in Dongchuan district of Kunming, Yunnan province on March 20, 2013.

A volunteer clears up plastic pellets on a bank along Hong Kong's Lamma island on August 5, 2012. Hundreds of millions of potentially toxic plastic pellets from containers knocked off a vessel during Hong Kong's worst typhoon in 13 years washed up on its beaches and laid there for more than a week.

A worker scoops oil near Dalian Port in the Liaoning province of China nine days after a busted pipeline leaked 1,500 metric tons of heavy crude into the water. This photo was taken on July 26, 2010.

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