The water in lake Baikal is toxic. Who is to blame?

Lake Baikal is considered one of the main natural heritage of Russia. Deepest lake in Siberia, one of the oldest on the planet, the provision of clean drinking water for many years, but… today is most often featured in the media with the scandalous information reasons in the spirit of “Baikal porasprodali Chinese” and “factories for the bottling of drinking water to empty lake Baikal” and others.
Sensation of the last days: lake Baikal, the largest natural reservoir of fresh water on the planet, is poisoned! According to the Director of the Limnological (azerbaidzhanskogo — ed.) Institute of the Siberian branch of RAS Andrei Fedotov, Baikal water can not be drunk. The concentration of bacteria releasing toxic substances exceeded the limits of permissible values. Continue reading →