Rimini swimming pools boom as mucilage hits seawater

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 13 - Rimini's swimming pools and water parks are booming amid an infestation of mucilage or plant gum in the seas off the famed Romagna Riveria resort.
    Images of the mucilage, caused by a rise in phytoplankton associated with global heating, have gone viral after European satellite Copernicus took a snapshot of the phenomenon on August 7.
    The photo captured the vast green flowering of phytoplankton and the white line of mucilage that snaked along its edge.
    The infestation has led many bathers to abandon the beaches and take to the clean waters of pools and parks instead. (ANSA).