Pollution kills: A Report from Israel that should serve as a warning to those who work in polluted waters

M., Ben-Yami (2001) Pollution kills: A Report from Israel that should serve as a warning to those who work in polluted waters. Samudra Report (29). pp. 3-4. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

In Israel, industrial and municipal polluters are now accused of causing a cancer epidemic among fishermen and other workers of Kishon Fishing Harbour. On 14 June 2001, thirty-one fishermen, and fishermen’s widows and orphans submitted a multi-million dollar civil lawsuit to a Haifa court. They accused six major petrochemical and chemical plants, including the Haifa Refinery, a fertilizer maker, Haifa Chemicals Ltd., and a municipal effluent purification plant for knowingly polluting, for at least two-and-a-half decades, the Kishon River, for many years biologically dead.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0368
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Israel, Pollution, Fishing Harbour, Disease, Health, Effluents
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2021 10:16
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 12:49
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/967

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