This is an archive article published on May 29, 2023
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Italy: Water in Venice’s Grand Canal goes bright green
The mysterious green liquid does not pose a health threat to people in Venice, local police were quoted as saying.
Gondolas navigate by the Rialto Bridge on Venice's historical Grand Canal as a patch of phosphorescent green liquid spreads in it, May 28, 2023. (AP) Waters in Venice’s main canal turned fluorescent green on Sunday, Italy’s fire department said.
The regional environmental protection agency ARPAV collected samples of the coloured water with the help of the fire department, they added. The agency’s experts are now probing for the cause of the change in colour.
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A gondola crosses Venice’s historical Grand Canal as a patch of phosphorescent green liquid spreads in it, Sunday, May 28, 2023. (AP)
The Interior Ministry’s representative in Venice, Michele di Bari, has called an emergency meeting to devise possible countermeasures, Italy’s ANSA news agency said.
The change in colour, according to preliminary probes by ARPAV and the police, was caused by a type of die often used to trace water leaks, ANSA reported.
In this image released by the Italian firefighters, a firefighter on a boat looks at the arched Rialto Bridge along Venice’s historical Grand Canal as a patch of phosphorescent green liquid spreads in it, May 28, 2023. (Vigili Del Fuoco via AP)
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