Director-General of the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute Michel Afram said “In 2016, we ran tests across the country, in different areas along the coast.

Director-General of the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute Michel Afram said “In 2016, we ran tests across the country, in different areas along the coast. The results were bad, In 2017, we ran the same tests along the entire coast and everything came back dangerously contaminated. Metals found at alarming levels in coastal waters include mercury, lead, cadmium, copper and zinc…
The sea along Lebanon’s coast is extremely polluted. This is nothing new, but it is surely getting worse.