| | Center for a Free Cuba - Regional Development and the Neglect of Havana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | An estimated 202 industrial plants in the metropolitan La Habana area pollute surface and underground waters; 100 plants require sizable investments to make "profound" changes in their production technology or treatment of residues, 40 have to be relocated, 30 require local abatement technologies, and 32 require extensive maintenance of existing waste treatment systems (Lezcano 1994b). |
 | | Most rivers in the city of La Habana environs-Luyanó, Almendares, Cojimar, and Quibd - are heavily polluted by organic and chemical wastes and have lost 90 percent of their animal and plant life in the last twenty years (Lezcano 1994b). |
 | | La Habana Bay is one of the several protected bays shaped like a bag or pocket (bahias de bolsa) with which Cuba is endowed (Marrero 1950, 47). |
| www.cubacenter.org /media/archives/2000/fall/development3.php3 (1994 words) |