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Council Bleaches its Rivers ‘To Combat Pollution’
Seriously, you couldn’t make it up!
You think you’ve heard everything. Seriously, after more than half a century on this planet, you reach the point where you’ve seen so many stupid, idiotic, short-sighted, selfish, cruel, callous, lazy, insane, criminal, greedy and downright evil acts that you start to think nothing can surprise you.
Then something like this comes along and reminds you that there actually is no limit to how low people will stoop.
It’s come to light that Waterford Council, in the Republic of Ireland, have been pouring bleach into local rivers since at least 1988. Let that sink in… That’s thirty-four years of deliberately adding bleach — which is known to be highly toxic to aquatic life — to the waterways.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has demanded accountability, requesting a report from the Council to explain their actions, but only after the press published reports about the practice following concerns raised by Coast Watch Ireland and Inland Fisheries Ireland.
Why on Earth would anyone, let alone a public authority in a position of responsibility, do something as insane as this? Well, the reason given by Waterford Council beggars belief.
