Environment Protection Association warned about swimming on Tripoli’s beaches after reports about sea water samples were proven contaminated.
The association said Tripoli’s beaches from Tajoura to Janzour have become landfills for the industrial waste, hospital litter, and the human waste that pumps into the sea through sewage pipelines, which amount to 250 that are directly pouring into the sea as there’s no proper sewage filtering system in Libya.
The Head of the association, Abdullah Busurweel, said the contamination reached the neighborhoods overlooking the sea as bacteria symptoms were seen on some of the fish, which can cause a lot of diseases in the human digestive system if eaten, let alone the skin rashes that it may cause to the people swimming in the area.
Busurweel called on the Local Governing Ministry to use warning signboards on the contaminated beaches.
