Oinofyta

Oinofyta (Greek: Οινόφυτα, alternative transliteration Inófita) is a village and former municipality in eastern Boeotia, Greece. Following the local government reform of 2011 it is now part of the municipality of Tanagra, of which it is a municipal unit. Its former name was Liatani. The municipal unit of Oinofyta is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): In December 2007, official tests revealed that drinking water in Oinofyta was contaminated with high levels of the carcinogen hexavalent chromium, which is used as an anti-corrosive in the production of stainless steel, paint, ink, plastics and dyes. For decades, factories had been dumping waste in the Asopos River, whose waters run from red to...