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South African Court Orders Firm to Prevent Future Chemical Spills

South Africa's Durban High Court has ordered Mumbai-based agrochemicals giant UPL to avert the growing risk of another spillage of poison-polluted water into the major Ohlanga river and the sea, north of the city of Durban, with immediate effect.

Additionally, the company was instructed to hire wastewater tankers to cart polluted water to a reputable hazardous waste dump.

This comes several days after toxic chemical residue from an old UPL warehouse overflowed into the river, echoing an incident from two years ago where 5,000 tonnes of farm poisons and other "agricultural remedies" caught fire and flowed into a river north of the city.

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The Marine parade pools on Durban's "golden mile" (file photo).

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