Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BOMBAY, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Public health officials in India have issued appeals for people to stop drinking water from a stinking polluted creek believed to be miraculously curative. As many as 5,000 people flocked to the brackish creek outside Bombay to bathe in and drink from the creek Saturday, the London Observer reported Sunday. Advertisement The water is usually salted by water from the Arabian Sea, but the salinity has dropped, which has many believing it is a divine occurrence. "Sweet seawater, this is a miracle. This water is divine," one man told a local TV news channel. However, the creek is used as a site for human sewage and industrial waste, and health officials issued a warning against drinking from, or bathing in its water. Officials said the creek might have lost its saltiness from an inflow of fresh water, or simply from pollution, the newspaper said.
