Low tide reveals contamination in Sungai Tengah


NIBONG TEBAL: Environ­mentalists who went to plant mangrove trees at the Sungai Tengah river mouth, received a rude shock when they saw pitch black water and an oil slick so thick that it appeared to flow into the sea.

A local NGO said low tide revealed the devastation industrial and agricultural pollution had caused to the river.

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