Bangalore, one of the largest industrial centers in India, despite its tropical climate, is covered with poisonous snow. In fact, this toxic foam is the result of the systematic pollution of the large lakes Belandur, Subramanyapur and Wartur, into which rivers of chemical waste flow.
Bangalore was once called "the city of a thousand lakes", and the reservoirs themselves were pure natural reservoirs, but now their fetid waters contain a huge amount of fuels and lubricants, detergents and various industrial by-products. A period of rains began - and powerful gusts of wind, raising foam into the air, covered the city streets with it.
There have been cases when the foam caught fire on its own, and for several days it was impossible to extinguish it. That is why Belandur is popularly called the Burning Lake. When foam lies in the streets, even a small cigarette butt can cause fire and death. The population lives like on a volcano. Moreover: getting on human skin, this poisonous mixture causes a strong burning sensation, after which rashes appear on the body.
The city's population, which has doubled in the past 20 years, and 20 nearby villages, where 50,000 families live, suffer from dizziness, headaches, eye irritation, asthma and indigestion (according to official figures, one in four residents is sick).
For 17 years, people have been pounding the doorsteps of various authorities so that the authorities finally solve the problem, but officials are still inactive, taking their families away from an environmentally dangerous place. Citing the fact that the treasury does not have the required $ 156 million, instead of cleaning the lake, they are installing CCTV cameras around the perimeter of the reservoir and erecting foam barriers, wasting money.
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Siddaramaya, minister of the Karnataka district to which the city belongs, urged people not to worry. “There is no problem here, because this happens every year,” he said. “No one will do anything until the minister’s family suffers from the poisonous foam,” indignant Indian social media users responded.
In addition to foam, there are a thousand problems in the city: poverty, toxic dust on the roads, polluted air, garbage on the streets that is burned at night due to the lack of recycling systems, traffic jams, which make it impossible to move normally. “Bangalore is a city of nightmares, you have to be completely headless to live there.
Because of the smog, people don't know what sunlight looks like. By 2020, water will be there at the price of gold,”an unknown commentator concludes. Many scoff at the intellect of the unfortunate, who "decorate the pillars with flower garlands, believing that this will help reduce pollution." A local seer said that in the next three years the city could disappear from the face of the Earth.
Elena Muravyova for neveroyatno.info
