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Taj Mahal turning green as insect excrement stains monument's white marble
2016-05-24 07:57:08 Post No. 74933831
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Taj Mahal turning green as insect excrement stains monument's white marble
Anonymous
2016-05-24 07:57:08
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India's most popular tourist attraction, the Taj Mahal, appears to be turning green in places, triggering alarm as the famed white marble of the monument to love comes under attack from insect poo.
A report has found that the creeping green stains are insect excrement, with environmentalist Brij Khandelwal saying it is because the adjoining river is dying.
"The preliminary survey report says that the polluted Yamuna river at the back of the monument is contributing to this problem," he said.
The Taj backs onto the Yamuna, for years soiled by human and industrial waste, and now shrunken by drought.