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30th January 2012

Photo reblogged from National Geographic Daily with 1,076 notes

nationalgeographicdaily: Ivanhoe Reservoir, Los AngelesPhoto: Gerd Ludwig in 2007, high levels of bromate - a carcinogen formed when bromide and chlorine react with sunlight - were found in Los Angeles’s Ivanhoe Reservoir. Today three million black plastic balls help deflect UV rays.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Ivanhoe Reservoir, Los Angeles
Photo: Gerd Ludwig

in 2007, high levels of bromate - a carcinogen formed when bromide and chlorine react with sunlight - were found in Los Angeles’s Ivanhoe Reservoir. Today three million black plastic balls help deflect UV rays.

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Source: nationalgeographicdaily