Residents in China’s southwestern mega city of Chongqing have been puzzled by this strange sight this week.
These images of the Yangtze River, the longest in China, have been surfacing since Wednesday. This stretch of the river around Chongqing looks like it’s been dyed blood red.
Locals suspect that sever pollution is the cause, but Chongqing’s Environmental Protect Bureau has another explanation—sand. Official reports are saying that flooding upstream washed excess sand downstream, turning the river bright red.
The Bureau also made a point of saying they did not find any evidence of illegal sewage dumping, but netizens have been questioning the official announcement.
Investigations are ongoing.
River begins to boil and evaporate in Russia
ALEXEY VISLYAKOV Witness the almost unbelievable phenomenon Hundreds of residents of the center of Yekaterinburg – Olkhovka small river flowing near USURT urban pond (area of streets and Kolmogorov operator), suddenly turned into a stream of hot water.
“Water is really hot. All shore littered with dead fish “- describes what he saw on our portal E1 user” professor. “
In urban traffic control service «URA.Ru» reported that in the course of this problem. According to them, most likely, somewhere there was a gust of hot water supply line, and now the water flows into the river, and then into the pond. But how to eliminate the cause of PE is not present. “Yesterday and today, there are specialists. The problem is that the river to the confluence of the pond flows through the tunnel, and no one knows exactly where there was a rush “, – the dispatchers.
