The River Danube

The River Danube

The river danube is 2850km long. It starts in Germany and finishes in two counties, Romania and bulgaria flowing into the black sea.
The problem with the Danube is that as you get further it gets dirtier



The picture above shows the danube in romania where it is most dirty, although you could not tell from the picture.

The picture above shows a picture of the Danube in hungary
The industry in the river is causing serious problems with the water and the less ecomically developed coutries can not afford to clean the water before drinking it.

Over 85 million people wash in the Danube so it is and along with industry there is alot of pollution in the river

Many diseases are caused by dirty water from the danube and alot of people rely on water to live but industries cannot shut down to avoid pollution because the industries are the main countries income and are heping them to develop.

The pollution also kills fish in the river which are the main food source of some couties and for people who sell fish, this can lower their income

The Danube industry makes lots of money for lots of countries.

For example, gold mines where the gold is rinsed and water put back into the river which makes the water dirty. Gold mines can also have cyanide spillages which will kill all fish in the area





Above is a picture of industry on the danube.



Types of industry the Danube



The main types of industry are agriculture, energy production an mineral extrating


above is the danube on the Romanian-Serbian border called the iron gate.

The water doen't look to bad but it is infected and can cause illness

There are not really any easy solutions unless all of the coutries agree as if one country high up the river says no all counties further down will still have pollution