October 8, 2011

Ivanhoe Reservoir, Los Angeles

Photograph by Gerd Ludwig, National Geographic

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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.

(From the upcoming National Geographic book Visions of Earth)


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