UNEP Confirms Balkan Hotspots
The UNEP report into DU contamination in Bosnia has been published. It confirms that DU is present in three of the sites investigated, over eight years after the NATO bombings there. The sites may be only a small amount of the 'hotspots' in need of decontamination. For the first time it was found that DU had leached into groundwater. The report recommends decontamination of the sites and stressed that NATO coordinates of six other DU-attack sites in the vicinity of Sarajevo were "still missing" and "should be reported to the authorities without delay." The report advocates long-term, annual testing of local drinking water. Klaus Toepfer, executive director of UNEP said, "These findings must not be seen as a cause for alarm.
The report can be downloaded from: http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/BiH_DU_report.pdf
