Blue dogs. We are in Mumbai in India. This is not a publicity stunt but unfortunately reality. The dogs, which circulate through the streets of the city, really have this unhealthy color and the fault would be industrial waste
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himdogs blue. We are Mumbai in India. This is not a publicity stunt but unfortunately reality. The dogs, which circulate through the streets of the city, really have this unhealthy color and it would be the fault of the gods waste industrial.
It was there to sound the alarm Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, according to which the stray dogs sighted in the industrial area of Taloja have assumed this color due to the untreated industrial waste that is released into the Kasadi River, where they drink and swim. Apparently, dogs often go to the river to eat and come into contact with any pollutants in the water. The news was also confirmed by the Navi Mumbai Animal Protection Cell.
"It was shocking to see how the dog's white fur turned completely blue", he said Arati Chauhan, who runs the Navi Mumbai Animal Protection Cell. “We discovered nearly five such dogs and asked the Pollution Control Committee to take action against such industries".
The area of Houses it houses about a thousand pharmaceutical, food and engineering factories, some of which dump various types of chemicals into the river. In this particular case, one company used blue dye for various purposes, including the production of detergents.
"Five or six dogs entered the site in search of food and took on the blue color," he told the Hindustan Times. Jayavant Hajare, an official of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board of Mumbai. "We have warned the owners of the companies asking them to make sure that no animals can enter again and that such an incident does not have to happen again."
"We have given the company seven days to remove pollutants from the site," Hajare added.
The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has carried out some test on water quality. According to the report released by the Hindustan Times, the concentration of oxygen required to support aquatic life (BOD) was very high, equal to 80 milligrams per liter (mg / L). Levels of chloride, which are toxic and harm vegetation, aquatic life and wildlife, were also high.
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Polluted water can also affect the health Human. Suffice it to say that fish die when the BOD level is above 6 mg / L. Levels above 3 mg / l make the water unsuitable for human consumption.
Like dogs, other animals, including birds and reptiles, may have come into contact with the dye and with pollutants also present in the air.
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Unfortunately, this is not the first time that blue dogs have been spotted in Mumbai. It had already happened in 2013, when some animals were photographed in Dharavi. Once again, the blame fell on a dye factory.
Francesca Mancuso
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