A river in China deemed clean enough to drink mysteriously turned red overnight, shocking residents and officials.
Residents of the area claim the
phenomenon has never happened before, and the colour change was not
caused by an industrial contamination. The river is located in
Xinmeizhou village, Cangnan County in eastern China’s Zhejiang province.
A local told the Daily Express
that, the water looked normal at 4 am, “but then suddenly, within the
space of a few minutes, the water started turning darker and eventually
was completely red.”
The local said they used to catch fishes as well as drink the water because it was normally good.
China Radio International reports that Wenzhou Environmental Protection Bureau inspectors have taken samples for analysis.
A professor of Limnology (the study of inland waters) at the University of Wisconsin Emily Stanley told LiveScience
that “It looks like a pollutant phenomenon. Water bodies that have
turned red very fast in the past have happened because people have
dumped dyes into them”.
The conversation on social media is that it was the start of The
Apocalypse but officials claim it was as a result of sand distribution
due to upstream flooding.
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