China's Yangtze River Turns Red

Some of the religious nuts will probably claim this is bibilical, but more likely, somebody dumped some industrial waste.

Something like that happened in San Jose, CA about twenty years ago. Someone dumped several big industrial plating baths into the sewers all at once. This killed most of the bacteria that digest waste in the sewerage treatment plant. So for about three days, raw sewerage was dumped into the San Francisco Bay. Big mess, especially since there isn't much water flow in the south end of San Francisco Bay to dilute that stuff. It could be both seen and smelled. EPA fined San Jose millions for that. San Jose found and fined the plating company.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/YV9EJa7IXYs/chinas-yangtze-river-turns-red

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