PHUKET: Tourists are refusing to go in the water at the south end of Bangtao Beach and fisherman are developing skin rashes and infections, after recent rain once again turned the klong into an open sewer pouring black water across the beach and into the sea.

The problem is worse than the one that has attracted so much attention recently in Karon, where black water has also been spilling into the sea from a klong.

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