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Three of Pakistan’s major rivers are seriously contaminated with potentially toxic elements (PTE) from raw sewage and untreated industrial effluents, posing a risk to communities as well as to flora and fauna, says a new study.

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The joint Pakistan-China study, published this month in Chemosphere, is based on spectroscopy (an approach used by Chemists to detect very small amounts of an element) of water, sediment and fish samples collected from sites along the Chenab, Indus and Kabul rivers and analysed at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITPR), Beijing.

This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Asia & Pacific desk.

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