This time the discoloured water is blue and its coming out of Punta del Río which is the municipal boundary between Salobreña and Motril.

Walkers on a stroll were the ones that came across it and before long the NGO, Ecologistas en Acción (GENA), were on to it and issued a report on social media.

The suspicious water flow, which was flowing for about five hours, was blue with a thin film of foam: “The discharge came from a wall on the Vereda de los Pescadores in Motril and ended up flowing out to the sea right on the border with Salobreña,” explained the GENA, provincial secretary, Antonio Martínez.

The ecologist group considers that the pollution was discharged deliberately during the night, but without realising how long it would hang around for; i.e., during plain daylight.

Specialists from the Environment Department of the Junta de Andalucía as well as officers belonging to the Motril Policía Local were present examining the discoloured water.

“We suggest that our Town Halls take this video to Fitur [the Tourism Fair in Madrid, where they have stands promoting these two towns] to show just how blue our waters are and to put in for a Bandera Azul,” ironised Ecologistas en Acción on their official Facebook page.