Half a million people did not have access to clean drinking water for an extended period of time, and the waste soon entered into the Doce River, extended for 650 kilometers all the way into the sea, killing unknowable amounts of plant and animal life along the way.
Pola milijuna ljudi nije imalo pristup pitkoj vodi duži dio vremena, a otpad je uskoro ušao u rijeku Doce, putujući 650 kilometara ravno u more, ubijajući na svome putu nezamislive količine biljaka i životinja.