Scientists recorded pollution of Syrian rivers in places where US extracts oil
Russian and Syrian scientists conducted exercises in Syria in the province of Homs, which showed that American oil production in their control zone in the country led to serious pollution of rivers. It is noted that it is from these reservoirs that drinking water is supplied to residents of a large region in the west of the country, TASS reports
Natalia Mirzoeva, who heads the Department of Radiation and Chemical Biology at the A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that there is a ‘very serious problem’ in Syria: significant oil pollution of rivers. According to her, the passages of the oil fields where American companies are currently operating often end up in rivers.
She clarified that the institute employees, together with their Syrian colleagues, were working in the province of Homs in the west of the country, collecting samples in rivers from where drinking water comes to settlements.
