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Message: <blockquote data-quote="topkollek" data-source="post: 31322602" data-attributes="member: 510150">ගෑනුන්ව අවුස්සලා ගත්ත නම් හරි <img src="https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTg5ZGEwMjhjejByZ3NoZmhvMm9qa3B4aGk2YWsxYTR3b3p0cnpnbmpqN2d4eXZteiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3ohjVabojNBmsqeqg8/200.gif" alt="protesting hey arnold GIF" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><hr /><a href="https://ipen.org/news/coal-plant-kalpitiya-women-have-dangerously-high-mercury-level" target="_blank">https://ipen.org/news/coal-plant-kalpitiya-women-have-dangerously-high-mercury-level</a><h3>Coal plant: Kalpitiya women have dangerously high mercury level</h3><a href="https://ipen.org/#facebook" target="_blank">Facebook</a> <a href="https://ipen.org/#twitter" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fipen.org%2Fnews%2Fcoal-plant-kalpitiya-women-have-dangerously-high-mercury-level&title=Coal%20plant%3A%20Kalpitiya%20women%20have%20dangerously%20high%20mercury%20level" target="_blank">Share</a>04 January 2019<a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/181223/news/coal-plant-kalpitiya-women-have-dangerously-high-mercury-level-326359.html" target="_blank">http://www.sundaytimes.lk/181223/news/coal-plant-kalpitiya-women-have-dangerously-high-mercury-level-326359.html</a>A global study has found high mercury levels in a majority of participants from the Kalpitiya Peninsula, where the Chinese-built coal-fired power station Lakvijaya is located on a sand bar between the sea and a fishing lagoon. Nearly 80 percent of those examined from the area–all women between the child-bearing ages of 18 and 44–exceeded the 1ppm (parts per million) total mercury reference. An alarming 97 percent had beyond the 0.58ppm proposed reference level. Pollutants in air and water are frequently measured in parts per million.The main source of mercury is eating tainted fish. In Sri Lanka, both the coal-fired power plant and emissions from a cement factory had contributed mercury contamination to adjacent waterways, elevating the levels in women living nearby, the study said. Women who ate few fish, small fish or who ate fish infrequently recorded the lowest mercury levels.“The women in this location are heavily dependent on fish for protein and most participants reported eating at least two fish meals per day or more consisting of a wide range of fish species from the [Puttalam] lagoon, which supports over a hundred species of edible fish and crustacean,” it records. “This is the highest level of fish consumption seen among any locations sampled…”<img src="https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTg5ZGEwMjhjandneTV1ZHVkMWp2bHg2azhwMTFlZGdnMG1pbGU4M2RyMjJ2aXhnaiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3ohhwDhKiJF84o8JRS/200.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />------ Post added on [DATETIME="UT"]1774926682[/DATETIME]</blockquote>

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