Okaz newspaper

I AM not exaggerating when I say that the talk about the pollution of Arbaeen Lake, or the Sea of Mud as it was historically called, goes back to tens of years during which the citizens have also read about amounts of money running into millions that were earmarked for the cleaning of the lake and protecting it from pollution.

The lake has turned from a beacon of beauty into an eye sore just like the sewage trucks, and the bumps and potholes filling our streets.

The news reports that were written about the cleaning of the lake in the past were enough to fill it. These reports would have been sufficient to dry up the dirty water of the notorious lake.

The citizens who were waiting to hear the good news that the lake had been saved from pollution must be shocked when they read in Okaz newspaper on Monday that the municipality was looking into the causes of pollution of this lake and two other lakes in Jeddah.

After all these long years of talk about the solutions, the contracts and the budgets earmarked to clean the Arbaeen Lake, the municipality is still looking into the causes of the pollution.

The citizens, who have become desperate of any solution, have every right to call for burying the lake and dumping it completely.