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Show Pollution-Fighting Ideas Whr there's a wall there's a way to fitilit water pollution. At a harbor in West Germany, should poison be spilled into the water, compressed air rising from the bottom of the harbor forms a wall of bubbles blocking off the mooring place in question and the harbor entrance in a matter of seconds. lllfl A way to fight pollution has been found by West Germany that could help people all over the world. Oil slicks can be fenced off with air-filled hoses and removed by means of suction suc-tion devices. Water pollution is a very serious matter in the small country of West Germany with its 60 million inhabitants, inhabit-ants, so modern laboratories carry out constant checks to make sure the purity of industrial in-dustrial waste liquids drained into rivers and lakes meets strict requirements. As a result of environmental protection pro-tection legislation in West Germany, technology is turning up many protective measures. One mammoth purification plant, built to neutralize dangerous waste products, is big enough to purify the sewage of a city of seven million. |