Help Save Lake Atitlan.

Anyone who has visited here will be very saddened and concerned to see this article.
I have been hearing for days that the lake has a brown "scum" around the shores but only yesterday did I see it myself . We were driving out of Panajachel to San Jorge la Laguna and I was shocked to see how far spread the brown algae was. In front of Hotel Atitlan there is no longer beautiful blue sparkling water, the whole bay is covered in a brown algae.
There have been Govt. helicopters flying over for the past few days assessing the situation and late yesterday afternoon , a line of goverment cars with blackened windows, obviously carrying some VIPS came into town.
I hope that something will be done before it is too late.
All the villages around the lake depend on tourism....it would be devastating for the local economy to lose that income....already the fisherman are without work. There is now a warning on eating fish from the lake. http://guatemala- times.com/ news/guatemala/ 1222-help- save-lake- atitlan-guatemal a.html