River In China Turns Blood Red

So, a river in China, which the locals bragged about since the water was clean enough to drink and no factories dumped chemicals into it, has turned blood red "in a matter of minutes".  Authorities think someone dumped dye into it, but the picture would suggest that's one heck of a lot of dye...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asia/mysterious-river-runs-blood-red-china-n165551

River turns blood RED overnight in mystery baffling entire Chinese city

• Jul 25, 2014 15:51
  
• By John Kelly
  

Locals living next to the waterway in Wenzhou all their lives say it has never happened before and industrial contamination has been ruled out


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Locals say at 4am the water flow was normal but by 6am it had turned a frightening shade of crimson.

An elderly resident who has lived by the river all his life says it has never happened before.

Industrial contamination has been ruled out because there are no chemical plants along it length.

Now .mirror.co.uk/all-about/weird science]environment protection officials[/url] in the Chinese city of Wenzhou are taking water samples to find out what is going on.

Wenzhou is a well-known town in East China's Zhejiang Province.

The place is surrounded by mountains on three sides with the front of the city facing the Pacific ocean.

The phenomenon echoes a similar incident in 2012 when the Yangtze River in China also changed colour.

Officials claimed the blood-red waters were a result of sand distribution due to upstream flooding but sceptics were not convinced and social media sites were full of bizarre theories including one that it was the start of The Apocalypse.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/river-turns-blood-red-overnight-3912870#ixzz38c41IgmI