It Looks Like a Lake Made for Instagram. It’s a Dump for Chemical Waste.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/world/europe/siberia-lake-instagram.html
There is only one problem: The lake is a man-made waste site for a power plant, Heating and Electrical Station Number 5. And that irresistible blue hue is not the color of pristine waters reflecting off the sky, but rather the deposits of calcium salts and metal oxides, according to the electrical company that runs the plant.
