An alert has been declared for the Marcal and Torna rivers, and Mr Illes said workers were "desperately" trying to stop contamination of the Raba and Danube rivers.
Especially the green marketer in me: I'm a chief marketing officer at Marcal, the segment leader in bath tissue, paper towels and other paper goods made from 100% recycled paper.
"The Marcal river is dead, " said Tibor Dobson, spokesman of the Hungarian Disaster Management Agency - a reference to a smaller river which flows north from the disaster area towards the Danube.