Original title: India toxic foam beach, some people play on the beach, self timer
Four seas network reported on December 2nd, in India's fourth largest city, Chennai, the famous Marina beach has been covered with white foam for four days in a row on December 2nd. Despite the pungent smell of these bubbles, fishermen have been warned not to enter nearby waters, or many people are attracted by bubbles and play on the beach.
As the longest urban beach in India, Marina beach is the life center of Chennai, the report said. On weekends, thousands of people flock to the once clean beach. Hundreds of families are not aware of the danger of bubbles, allowing children to play freely in them.
·, Mishra, a scientist at the Chennai National Coastal Research Center in India, pointed out: "entering the bubble is harmful to the human body, but people do not understand the risks. '
The pollution control committee of Tamil Nadu said they were analyzing samples of foam that spread over several kilometers on the beach. Doctors warn that these bubbles will form during every gust season, but this year is particularly serious. Exposure to foam may cause serious skin problems.
The Indian government is also concerned that something similar to the lake pollution incident in Bangalore in 2017 will occur there. Industrial wastewater from the lakeside factory was discharged into Lake belanduer, causing thousands of fish to die. The thickness of the pollutants reached tens of centimeters and even started to burn.
Jeyaseelan, a 30-year-old local fisherman in Chennai, said recently that customers didn't want to buy the fish he had caught: 'everyone thought the fish was poisonous and I had little income. '
"Pollution is a greater threat to Indian beaches than sea level rise," the report quoted scientist Mishra as saying. He pointed out that most of the foam comes from detergent residues mixed with other wastes.
In cities such as Chennai in India, only 40% of the sewage is properly treated and the rest is discharged into the sea, the researchers say. In recent days, heavy rain may also bring untreated sewage and phosphate into the sea. These substances are mixed with sea water to form white foam through ocean waves.
Mishra also said garbage such as plastic bags and cups also contaminated the beach, noting that volunteers collected nearly a ton of plastic and other waste in just two hours of the latest cleanup.
The pollution bubble has not only appeared in Chennai this year. In November 8th, the Daily Mail reported that similar pollutants foam appeared in the river of the main river in the main city of Delhi, India. The India people had to make morning prayers in the floating foam river.
However, there are 13 cities in India that are more polluted than Delhi, the report said. According to an article published in the economist on October 24, the global water quality index showed that India ranked second from the bottom of the 122 countries on the list.
In addition, the Indian government also needs to solve the serious air pollution problem, but on November 22, Indian environment minister jawadkar said confidently in an interview with New Delhi television: "Beijing has spent 15 years to control air pollution, and we don't need that long. '