The Minister of Minerals for Sudan, Ahmed El Sadeg El Karori, has acknowledged that Lake Nasser is heavily polluted. On Monday, he told Parliament that laboratory results proved that the lake, locally known as the Nubia Lake, is polluted with mercury, lead, and arsenic.
El Karori pointed to the use of arsenic by fishermen to catch fish and that of mercury by traditional gold miners in the Northern State.
Nubian fishermen have denied the use of arsenic, however, and attributed the mercury, lead and arsenic pollution to "companies brought in by the government" that make use of these toxic substances for the extraction of gold.
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