When Russias’s Daldykan River Turned into Blood like Color, Is It A Sign of the End of Times?
When the river Daldykan of the Arctic town of Norilsk in Russia turned red, people speculated that the omen is depicting the end of times. Curiosity came in troves to witness the supposedly one of the work of the four horsemen.
Panic began to engulf the neighboring communities, unsure of what is happening. Suspecting if the water they are consuming is still safe for drinking. The horrifying grip of the image they saw was one of the prophecies in the Holy Bible during the Moses era of the Exodus from Egypt when the Nile River turned into blood, from an article in Nations Press.
The turning of blood in the river Nile is one of the pestilence that was God's form of punishment to the people of Egypt for holding the Israelites as slaves for four hundred and thirty years.
But to the citizens' surprise, it turned out that the blood looking overflow was not blood after all. It just looked like it, Government has now determined the culprit of the incident and the environmental damage and hazardous effect of it.
According to investigators, the colorful occurrence of the Daldykan River was after all a chemical compound that was the result of elements being dumped into the river. A principal suspect is an unknown chemical that was suspiciously leaking from a pipeline or must've flowed to a dam and overflowed down the river.
The alleged company suspected of this tragedy is Nadezhda mining plant. Its toxic waste from their metallurgical process is the culprit of the red color of Daldykan River. Norlisk Nickel is the world's largest producer of Nickel, owns Nadezhda Plant.
According to the company, the chemical is rich in iron salts that is responsible for the reddish color caused the crimson hue. Norlisk Nickel also maintained that the red staining does not cause environmental hazards to the environment, CNN said.
However, Russia's Environment Ministry is still on its investigation of the nature of the contaminant if it poses health risks and what environmental damage it will leave behind.
