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# Not-so-Blue Danube
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5407/
- Published: 2007-03-31T11:52:20.000Z
- Updated: 2007-03-31T11:52:20.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Current Affairs, #wpChunk

[Sad stuff](http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070330/wl%5Fcsm/odanube?ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> When Johann Strauss gazed upon Europe's grandest waterway 140 years ago, it inspired him to compose the Blue Danube Waltz, went on to become an unofficial anthem of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

> Today, the river that flows beneath the bridges of the Hungarian capital is anything but blue. Befouled with sewage, fertilizers, and industrial waste, the opaque, brown Danube has become a drainage canal for half a continent, so poisonous that it has devastated life in the Black Sea, which lies at the end of the 1,800-mile long river.