Topic: Pictures: Toxic Foam Chokes Brazil River

[sam]

This gallery is part of a special news series on the global water crisis.

Toxic foam chokes Brazil's most polluted waterway, the Tietê River, on September 4 in the town of Pirapora do Bom Jesus (map).

-- crazy stuff!

[Clive]

No link?   

[sam]

sorry, must not have pasted it... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/photogalleries/100921-toxic-foam-river-brazil-science-environment-pictures/

[Rik]

You wouldn't want to swim in it, would you. 

[Clive]

I used to see foam like that all the time when I worked for BP.  They used to separate it out before outflowing it into the river. 

[Simon]

That looks terrible!   

[sam]

I used to see foam like that all the time when I worked for BP.  They used to separate it out before outflowing it into the river. 

obviously not in Brazil though