Mumbai’s Marine Drive loses its charm as sea vomits garbage in high tide

Marine Drive is, perhaps, one of the most famous landmarks in Mumbai , an essential on every tourist’s itinerary. Even the Mumbaikars love taking a casual stroll around the periphery of the Marine Drive or simply sitting by the Arabian sea in their free time.
Marine Drive has a curvy, 3.6 km long boulevard that begins from the southern point of Nariman Point to Girgaon Chowpatty or Chowpatty Beach. The location is apt to watch a sunrise or sunset as well as the nights, when the coastline gets lit up just like a Queen’s Necklace.

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However, the same Marine Drive is on now is news, albeit for the wrong reasons. News has it that the Arabian Sea has washed up more than two lakh kilograms of garbage on the shoreline after the recent high tide.

Recently, the city of Mumbai woke up to tonnes of rotten garbage lying on the Marine Drive road. Needless to say, it was all the litter that we tossed in the sea and other water bodies. Now, the civic authorities have their work cut out, to clean up the huge mess that has become a civic nuisance.

However, Mumbai is not the only city that has been grappling with the issue of sea pollution. In 2018, the Great Pacific Garbage, a long stretch of area in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California, created waves on the internet for the shocking amount of garbage it contains that is choking all the marine life. All this reiterates that it is high time both tourists as well as local citizens of a beachside or riverside destination take the responsibility of keeping the water bodies clean.