This doesn't show the whole picture. Ground water is the real problem. It sits below the ground and provides many times more fresh water to us than surface water like rivers. If the contaminants hit ground water, it can spread everywhere down gradient. If this happened with Chernobyl it would have been game over for Europe.

This doesn't show the whole picture. Ground water is the real problem. It sits below the ground and provides many times more fresh water to us than surface water like rivers. If the contaminants hit ground water, it can spread everywhere down gradient.