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Concern over rising levels of water pollution has once again gripped Mumbai after a dead dolphin washed ashore Manori beach. While a toxicology report stating the cause of death is yet to be released, experts are concerned over the increasing number of such incidents in India's maximum city. Animal activists claim it's the 10th humpback dolphin, a protected species, to be found dead this year. This June, 42-foot-long blue whale was washed ashore near Alibag in Raigad district of Maharashtra. Some people even took pictures standing on the animal. Environmentalists insist rising sea pollution, ingestion of plastic and possibly even poaching in the deep seas could have led to these mysterious deaths. Dr Anish Andheria from the Wildlife Conservation Trust says, "Oceans are getting polluted in