[facebook_video video_url="https://www.facebook.com/cleanmalta/videos/1679886472313724"][/facebook_video]

Updated 2.40pm - Added video

An underground leak at Sliema's The Strand has turned the sea along the iconic promenade a murky brown, with water gushing out from beneath paving slabs onto the road and seeping into the adjacent sea.

Pressure from the high-pressure leak has forced parts of the paving up, with water finding an outlet by a tree planter and flowing out into the open. 

Times of Malta videographer Chris Sant Fournier caught the scene on camera, while drone footage shot by members of environmental NGO Żibel revealed the extent of the water outflow.