Belfast Telegraph Sam McBride's look at Lough Neagh's blue-green algae crisis

It’s killing dogs. It’s killing swans - and almost half of Northern Ireland is drinking water drawn from a source laced with it. The Belfast Telegraph spent a day on Lough Neagh, during which we observed a dead swan in the Toome Canal, lying in a thick toxic sludge of what is commonly known as ‘blue-green algae’.

Read Sam McBride’s full report on the situation here: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/sam-mcbride/lough-neagh-has-become-a-scene-of-biblical-disaster-and-stormont-was-central-to-its-destruction/a2060706800.html

Video by Aodhán Roberts/Belfast Telegraph.

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