White poisonous foam-polluted lake caught fire

Lake Bellandur in Bangalore, India, is so polluted that white poisoning bubbles like snow and sometimes burn.

Lake Bellandur is polluted, bubbling with white poison

With an area of ​​36.4 km ² , Lake Bellandur is the largest and most polluted lake in Bangalore city.Every time it rains, untreated chemical waste and garbage pouring into the lake for decades are churned into a thick, white foam.This layer of foam contains a lot of oil, grease and detergent, sometimes it catches fire, causing the lake to catch fire.(Photo: Debasish Ghosh).

Local residents are familiar with this unusual phenomenon. "Every time it rains and the water rises, the foam also rises, making the road dangerous. The foam interferes with the view and the area smells bad. Cars and bicycles pass through the area. covered with foam, " Visruth, who lives 30m from the lake, said.(Photo: Debasish Ghosh).

For Mohammed Attaulla Khan, who grew up on the lake, the lake surface caught fire in May very memorable. "Not every day the lake burns. It makes people wake up and realize we are facing a serious problem , " Khan said.(Photo: Debasish Ghosh).

TV Ramachandra, one of the leading environmental scientists in the city, submitted a report to the local government in June after the lake caught fire.This report explains the formation of bubbles from untreated waste streams during heavy rain and high winds.Ramachandra also emphasized that a badly lit cigarette thrown into the lake could cause bubbles to burn.(Photo: Debasish Ghosh).

With a population nearly doubling to 10 million in the past two decades, local authorities cannot manage the pollution associated with growth. "Polluters are at an advantage because the law-making agency is weak and inadequate. We have been paying the price for the past 40 years , " Oddity Central quoted Ramachandra.(Photo: Debasish Ghosh).

Bangalore has been dubbed the "city of thousands of lakes" but now has become "a thousand trash bins" .Lake Bellandur suffered a great disadvantage when it was at the end of the southern lake.Every day, the lake receives more than 490 million liters of untreated or untreated wastewater from households and industrial parks throughout the city.Reportedly, the foam on the lake surface this year is thicker and smelly than previous years.(Photo: Debasish Ghosh).

Foam also affects the health of people who come into contact with it.After Ramachandra and the students of the Indian Academy of Sciences spent an afternoon collecting foam samples, they suffered a severe rash.Local residents living near the lake often have symptoms of headache, dizziness and abdominal pain, most likely due to polluted water.(Photo: NDTV).