10 Most Dangerous Waters in the World

radlerjan (55)in #nature • 7 years ago (edited)

The world is 70 percent water, so it's probably a good thing that the stuff is good for us. We can drink it, swim in it, grow food with it, and just plain live because of it. However, certain bodies of water are shockingly mean to us. Interacting with some lakes and rivers can hurt us, make us sick, or even kill us.

#10. Boiling Lake Dominica
Whoever named this place was certainly no fan of subtlety: Boiling Lake is exactly what it sounds like. Discovered in 1870 by two Englishmen, temperatures taken five years later ranged anywhere from 82 to 91.5 °C.
#9. Citarum River West Java, Indonesia
Here we have a body of water that can destroy us, but only because we screwed it up. Citarum River might well be the most polluted, trash-filled bit of water on the planet.
#8. Rio Tinto Spain
Rio Tinto is among the most acidic bodies of water around, with a pH balance of 2, at best. This means the Rio Tinto is as strong as stomach acid and is more than powerful enough to kill any fish that dare swim in it.
#7. Lake Kivu Of DRC And Rwanda
Three hundred meters (1,000 ft) below the surface of Lake Kivu lies a ticking time bomb. Over 250 cubic kilometers (60 cubic miles) of carbon dioxide, along with around 65 cubic kilometers (15 cubic miles) of methane gas, lurks under this body of water, enough to provide electricity to several countries.
#6. The Rivers Of Johannesburg South Africa
Catching E. Coli is no fun under normal circumstances; now imagine you were literally swimming in the stuff.

#5. Blackwater River Virginia, USA
Too much water can be a bad thing, even if the water can't kill you otherwise just ask the folks around Blackwater, we've seen the water rise and attack far more than usual the past few years. After close to 60 of normalcy the river has overflowed and flooded nearby town six times in past ten years.
#4. Tualatin River Oregon, USA
Oregon's Tualatin River is not the place to be if you want to take your dogs for a swim; close to a dozen pups die there every year from exposure to toxic blue-green algae.
#3. Lake Karachay Russia
Like a supermodel with a bomb strapped underneath her bodice, Russia's Lake Karachay is pristine, gorgeous, and incredibly deadly. It is, without question, the most radioactive body of water on the planet.
#2. Belle Fourche River And South Dakota, USA
Belle Fourche isn't poisonous, boiling, or radioactive. However, it is turbulent and wild, at least in one particular area, authorities near the rivers diversion dam want a mile-log area closed to the public, now that several deaths have been reported there, caused by raging rapids trapping people underwater
#1. Potomac River Maryland–West Virginia Border, USA
Though the only thing most people know about the Potomac is that Washington, DC is situated on it, the legendary river can also be associated with something else: horrible deaths. The area between Great Falls and Chain bridge forms a series of rapids and waterfalls that send their victims spiraling downward for almost an entire 1.5 km that's over a mile if that's not enough the river strongest currents are actually underwater, so if you get sucked down you stay down. Around six people die each year at the Potomac and many more risk their lives simply playing near or around it.