Miracles galore....

ooooooh...

I am so dying to find out what the tests show! Why was the water sweet? Hope the poor people don't get sick!!

Cynical cynical me. It might have been a true miracle!!

Maybe the "Chocolate Virgin Mary" is a real miracle too.

What about the Curious case of God Ganesha Drinking Milk more than 10 years ago? (Cached Google Link with more info)

Indians drink "divine" sea water as it turns sweet

By Reuters
Saturday August 19, 01:20 PM

MUMBAI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Thousands of Indians drank from a murky Arabian Sea creek after news spread overnight that its water had miraculously turned sweet and could cure illnesses, police said on Saturday.

About 5,000 people gathered at the creek in India's biggest city of Mumbai overnight, and many of them were seen drinking the dirty water with their palms, they said.

"Sweet seawater, this is a miracle. This water is divine," Sheikh Naseer, a Mumbai resident, told a local TV news channel.

He was also shown giving a young boy a bath in the creek's murky waters that receive thousands of tonnes of sewage and industrial waste every day.

Some people carried seawater away in bottles and plastic bags, saying they were going to share it with their families. Children as well as adults bathed in the murky water in which garbage and plastic were seen floating.

Police said the news spread after some fishermen tasted the water and found it sweet and told local residents about it.

"There has been a mad rush to the creek. There is a dargah nearby and people felt this is something divine," said S. Kumar, a police officer, referring to an Islamic mausoleum in the area.

But police stepped in and stopped people from going to the creek on Saturday after authorities and doctors warned that the water could be polluted and drinking it could be dangerous.

Mumbai's civic officials said the water could have temporarily lost its salinity due to several reasons, including pollution and inflow of freshwater from a nearby source.

"We have collected a sample of the water and sent it for testing," a city official said, adding that the water in the creek had returned to being saline.

Last year three people drowned in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai after thousands of people made a dash for a beach where diamonds were rumoured to be washing ashore.