Pollution In Eastern Europe

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in, not pollution like carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases or other factors concerned with the global warming issue.
The causes of environmental problems and the actual problems that were caused are the first subject that must be explored. Air pollution is by far the most serious pollution problem is eastern Europe. In general, the problem was caused by the burning of coal in industry and lead-based diesel non-desulferized petrol in cars. This resulted in very high amounts of sulfur oxides (particularly sulfur dioxide which is the number one pollutant), nitrous oxides, ozone, suspended particulates, carbon disulfide, and chlorine . The serious sulfur dioxide problem was exacerbated by the fact that eastern Europe is filled with thermal power stations that emit particularly high amounts of this pollutant . On top of this, the main coal used for energy in many areas is lignite, a very cheap but incredibly dirty and inefficient coal that is heavily overused and emits a lot of sulfur ...

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containing fertilizers that were overused and seeped into water supplies . The other general causes of water include the dumping of industrial waste products, animal waste, and in some cases human waste and landfills . Once again, it is the urban centers that have caused most of the environmental destruction. Although sewage is not generally a major problem, dumps of sewage in urban areas have caused the loss of a lot of fresh water. This, along with the other forms of pollution already mentioned, have resulted in some alarming statistics from the late 1980's: in East Germany, 45% of the drinking water was unusable even after basic water treatment, and in Poland only 5% of rivers ...

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