[pt49]

I sailed across the Atlantic back in the late 1970's and we regularly found plastic bags on our fishing lines trawling behind the yacht.

[ammulu]

Originally Posted by atula

Here in India the biggest problem is the hindu festivals when we are required to submerge the idols of gods and godesses in a water body...the seas and oceans are actually contaminated in hundreds during that time, when idols made of plaster of paris, the paint, etc get into the water...

I would agree with you Atula, the water is polluted to a greater extent due to this idols submerging and not just that but there is all the sewage too that is redirected into lakes or rivers etc... I just went for boating in some lake in the south india and the smell was hopeless, it had great looking park on the banks but it wasn't suitable for boating.

[fiona]

I think that with the news they report on whatever it is that is popular at the moment. I do a lot of research to find out what is going on. Sometimes it takes matter into my own hands to find out what is really going on in this world.