# Contaminated Rio Doce Water Flows into the Atlantic - NASA

- By: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Date: 2015-12-08
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87083
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Contaminated_Rio_Doce_Water_Flows_into_the_Atlantic_-_NASA.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Contaminated_Rio_Doce_Water_Flows_into_the_Atlantic_-_NASA.jpg/1920px-Contaminated_Rio_Doce_Water_Flows_into_the_Atlantic_-_NASA.jpg
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Almost two weeks after the Bento Rodrigues dam disaster, the iron waste reached the Atlantic Ocean waters, configuring the worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history.