Arsenic

Residents of Nea Triglia and Nea Plagia in Halkidiki, northern Greece have expressed concern after high levels of arsenic were detected in the local water supply.

According to the municipality, an additional treatment stage is necessary to remove the arsenic, and installation procedures are already under way.

Beypazarı, a well-known Turkish mineral water company, has been banned in Switzerland on the grounds that it is harmful to health due to the detection of high amounts of boron, while company officials have denied these allegations.

A Mixed Jury of Appeal in Thessaloniki upheld on Tuesday the two life sentences imposed on a 51-year-old university lecturer for the fatal poisoning by arsenic of his wife and her grandmother several years ago.

The prosecution in the town of Kruja has opened an investigation into a suspected mass poisoning which President Ilir Meta has described as a serious threat to people's lives.

Mayor of Rodopi Municipality Pavel Mihaylov declared a state of emergency due to the high levels of manganese in the drinking water in the village of Brestovitsa, BNR reported. The values of the chemical element in the water are at times above the permissible - with an authorised quantity of 50 mg/l, the manganese quantities in drinking water are more than 1,000 mg/l.

The tap water in Lyubimets is now safe for drinking and cooking show the new tests made yesterday. The indicators are good and arsenic concentration, for which water use was limited, is already within normal.

Drinking water in the southern Bulgarian town of Lyubimets is not safe for human consumption due to an increased arsenic content found in it. The problem affects about 8,000 people who as of today are unable to use the tap water for drinking and cooking, although it will not be stopped so that it can be used for all other needs.

The three most polluted places on the planet are in Indonesia, Russia and Bangladesh.

Indonesia has been mostly associated with Bali's sunshine views. It is hard to imagine that the dirtiest place in the world, littered with tons of garbage, dying and decaying animals, is located there.

The Romanian Presidency at the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement regarding the reduction of the exposure of workers to carcinogens and mutagens, informs the Council of European Union on Tuesday.

 A Greek court has sentenced a university lecturer to two life terms for the fatal poisoning by arsenic of his wife and her grandmother several years ago.

The court ruled late Thursday that the 46-year-old geology lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki gradually poisoned his 34-year-old wife and her 85-year-old grandmother in August 2013.