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Kuwaiti academic warns from mass fish death during summer |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 09:42 |
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UWAIT, March 14 (KUNA) -- A Kuwaiti academic warned against mass fish death during summer, urging the authorities to take precautionary steps to reduce the marine pollution.
Chairperson of the Environment Committee at the Faculty of Education at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) Baheeja Bahbahani told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), that the tests showed high percentages of toxins in the sea water.
This is due to shedding wastewater in the sea; which resulted in a rise in rates of sulfur, ammonia, phosphate, and bacteria, she noted.
She said that the tests also showed a great drop in the oxygen percentages, pointing out the water distillation plants which uses the sea water would be of a high risk to human health.
The wastewater includes domestic water, and industrial waste, besides chemicals, causing a number of diseases like Typhoid, cholera, and dysentery and other infectious disease, Behbahani added.
She said the bacteria pollutes the sea creatures which might eaten by humans in raw form like shellfish, adding that this might affect the biodiversity in the sea and causes red tides and be of a the negative impact of coral reefs. She called the environmental and researches centers to follow the precautionary measures like the environmental monitoring, saying that they can use the sea creatures as a sign of the pollution in the sea.
Behbahani also said that environmental planning should be part of the comprehensive developing plan of the country. - Kuna
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