KUWAIT CITY, Jan 8: Based on a recent environmental study, the treatment of oil lakes left over by the invasion is being impeded by the existence of mines, as well as the mixture of oil with sea minerals such as salt, and the mixture of oil, sand and debris, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

As stated in a copy of the study Al-Seyassah received, about 114 square kilometers of the desert in Kuwait was affected while the retreating Iraqi soldiers turned 798 oil wells into mines, and there’s need for sophisticated techniques and modern equipment, which are unavailable in Kuwait, to treat the oil leaks.
The report indicated that raw crude oil is mixed with 6 billion gallons of sea water of an approximately 10 percent salt, warning the whole area has become a typical mine field. Also about 40 million cubic meters of sand is said to be polluted, and the process has deteriorated the ecological system in Kuwait, in view of the large number of animals and plants destroyed.

The study discussed various types of pollution befalling the land environment in Kuwait, citing visual pollution, crude oil pollution, and oil trench related pollution.