SaS lambasts government over ground water contamination

After detecting groundwater contamination in the Zitny Ostrov area, Slovakia's authorities failed to act and have thus neglected their duties, SaS party deputies Anna Zemanova and Lubomir Galko said. "Before Christmas, 2017, the Public Health Authority banned the drinking and use of water from piping in some villages in the Zitny Ostrov area due to there being high values of the pesticide atrazine, a substance that has been prohibited since 2005. I talked to geologists and we searched for the cause [of the contamination]. It was either an intentional act of pollution, or the atrazine got there through the groundwater," said Zemanova.