TRIPOLI: With untreated sewage in the water and rubbish piled on the sand, pollution on Tripoli's Mediterranean coast is denying residents of the war-torn Libyan capital a much-needed escape.
"We need quick solutions for this problem because it harms the environment just as much as it harms people." But Tripoli's only sewage works closed years before that, like many industrial facilities shuttered for lack of maintenance or funding."Huge amounts of sewage gets dumped in the sea every day," said Sara al-Naami of Tripoli city council.Laboratory tests have found"a high concentration of bacteria, 500 per cent more than normal", including E. Coli, at five sites along the capital's coastline, she added.
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