The world's media passed through Bozinta Mare in early February. The residents of this small village in the foothills of the Carpathians had never experienced anything like it. But then they had never experienced anything like the reason for their sudden close attention.

A kilometre from the edge of this community of dairy farmers lies a vast dam owned by a gold-mining company called Aurul. When Aurul's dam burst in the middle of the night at the end of January, a flood of cyanide-tainted water washed across their farmlands and down to the local river.

The story might have ended there, but the villagers' river is a minor tributary of the Danube. When the fishermen in Hungary started to notice that their livelihood was dying, questions were asked of their neighbours in Romania, whom they had long suspected of polluting the Danube.

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