Satellite image of a leaking slurry pipeline near the Daldykan River, Norilsk, Russia (lower centre left). Red water can be seen trailing for several kilometres along a slurry pipeline to a chemical waste storage facility (red area, bottom left) belonging to the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant (centre left).

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