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At present, Canada and the Northeast United States are the hardest hit areas.
Ray Robinson, director of Canada's Environmental Protection Service, has said, “We can say without a doubt that present levels of acid rain will destroy life in many thousands of Canadian and American lakes during the present generation if we do not move fast to reduce our emission of acid-causing pollutants."
Water is not all that is affected. The Canadian researchers predict crop and forest product damage in their country at $8.5 billion over the next 20 years. Plants affected by acid rain are not as resistant to disease.
Acid rain eats away at limestone and marble buildings and is leaching poisonous mercury, lead and zinc out of the soil and into aquifers and ground waters that supply our drinking water.
Acid-producing emissions can be reduced by 90 percent in some cases. A study shows that oxide control devices, although expensive, would mean no more than a 2 percent increase in the consumer power bill. We cannot afford not to pay this price In Japan 1,100 scrubbers
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