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Melinda Lehmann, 28, sits in her car outside her family's bar which survived an industrial accident caused by the rupture in a reservoir containing toxic alumina sludge at a nearby plant in Kolontar, Hungary on November 22, 2010. An industrial accident in nearby Ajka, Hungary destroyed her family's home on October 4, 2010 when a flood of toxic red alumina sludge came flooding through her village, the closest to a collapsed reservoir wall that caused the accident, Hungary's worst ecological disaster.
© Amanda Rivkin