Pollution in Belfast Lough is now so bad that people cruising in boats get violently sick from the spray, an MLA claims.

It comes as the Stormont Executive works to halt an environmental crisis at Lough Neagh where noxious blooms of blue-green algae have covered the surface of the water across the past two summers.

Regular testing is taking place to see when it may be safe again for people to enter the water. Lough Neagh is popular for water sports, including open-water swimming groups with some people ...

Lough Neagh, the largest freshwater lake in the UK and Ireland, has been blighted by toxic blue-green algae since June. It supplies half of Belfast's drinking water and 40% of NI's overall supply.

Choose one of the loughs as a focus. Create a spider diagram with the name of the lough at the centre. Around this, write all the people, jobs and wildlife that depend on the loughs.

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It comes as the Stormont Executive works to halt an environmental crisis at Lough Neagh where noxious blooms of blue-green algae have covered the surface of the water across the past two summers. The ...