Water and air pollution in West Germany was only gradually reduced through prohibitions on waste discharge and the legally-mandated installation of modern filtering equipment. This photograph shows a coal-fired power plant, without desulfurization equipment, near Hamm an der Lippe in the Ruhr Valley. The consequences for the natural environment are obvious in this case: dying forests.
Source: Coal-fired power plant near Hamm on the river Lippe – without
desulfurization plant, 1985. Image 2 of 2. Photo: Günter
Zint.
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