BBC - Future - The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
▻http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth
From where I’m standing, the city-sized Baogang Steel and Rare Earth complex dominates the horizon, its endless cooling towers and chimneys reaching up into grey, washed-out sky. Between it and me, stretching into the distance, lies an artificial lake filled with a black, barely-liquid, toxic sludge.