Polish Waters News Today

Since last year, over half of the fish in the river have died, and Germany’s environment minister has said that Poland has not done enough to prevent a repeat of the incident. Now the Oder, which runs through the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany, is experiencing fish death en masse once again. Was this catastrophe doomed to repeat itself? Reporters from German newspaper Die Zeit and Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza looked for answers.

New ecological crisis on the Oder River

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Accord MP on the Oder disaster

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister said Friday that “huge amounts of chemical waste” were probably dumped intentionally into the Oder River, which runs along the border with Germany, causing environmental damage so severe it will take the river years to recover.

Drought and industrial pollution appear to have created the poisonous cocktail that has puzzled authorities for weeks.

Polish authorities have recovered 100 tonnes of dead fish from the Oder River that flows through Poland and Germany.

Raising fears of an environmental disaster, Polish firefighters have recovered 100 tonnes of dead fish from the Oder river since Friday. The reason behind the troubling incident is still unknown. “We’d never had an operation of this scope on a river before,” said Monika Nowakowska-Drynda from the national firefighter press office. Dams, boats, quad bikes and even a drone are involved in the massive operation to recover dead fish from the river that runs through Germany and Poland.

"We are dealing with a gigantic and outrageous ecological catastrophe," the former head of Polish Waters said. #oder #polishwaters