Posted on 10/09/2018 2:10:25 AM PDT by beaversmom
...the world’s most polluted river. 35 million people rely on the Citarum River on the island of Java, Indonesia, but it has become a toxic river of waste.
Report was done in April of 2014.
We really do have it so good in the U.S. Not perfect. But very, very good compared to a lot of people.
Our people have so many blessings. It’s beyond the scope of many peoples around the world to begin to imagine how well we have it here in America.
It’s all our “white privilege”.
I just about guarantee one could find such a comment.
Trump said it. It starts with s- and it ends with -hole.
A blessing that we have more than two brain cells so know enough not to poo in our drinking water.
India had a major river that was a slow flowing, bubbling septic sewer, from way too many people, in too many villages, towns and cities were doing their business near the river. Hopefully that’s changed in the last 10 years. This river is mostly litter.
I posted one this past May about a river in India...the video report is from July 2017:
The Yamuna: India’s Most Polluted River [10 minute video]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3654092/posts
I don’t have the know how to set up a water treatment system, but I’m sure glad I was fortunate enough to be born in a country where one was already in place.
Heck, even the furbabies know not to poo in the water bowl.
I was in Indonesia in May of this year and had a day free for sightseeing so I took a boat tour out to Krakatoa. The boat had to stop twice to remove plastic bags from the propellers. Arriving at the shattered remains of the volcano was picturesque with the three remaining remnant islands covered in greenery and the new Anak Krakatoa island rising in steam from the middle of the caldera. It was gorgeous until the boat arrived at the black sand beach and we had to wade through 5 meters of rubbish to reach the shore.
Vanguard World Toilet Crisis was the documentary shot in 2010, that I was thinking of. I'm afraid to look at the newer one you provided. The 2010 docu. had the host/narrator out in a rowboat gagging and puking and gagging some more from the stench, and lots of people taking dumps in the open. Oh well, I have to watch it now, just so my knowledge isn't all based on hearsay and Fordish-like nonsense.
Lol. True.
Not sure where these people would start to get things together with little infrastructure and know how.
I did find an article a few weeks ago when I saw this video that Japan is currently trying to help them clean up the Citarum. If anyone could help, it would be them.
I saw a video on the history of the toilet a few weeks ago. It showed how so many people in the world don’t even have rudimentary facilities. It was an interesting video.
Thank you for your first-hand account. Krakatoa musta been amazing.
The Toilet: An Unspoken History:
https://youtu.be/0ZHm3vkavgM
Type in —pollution, china- and read a few articles.
We go to Taiwan annually. In the winter there is a large gagging cloud that comes over from china. You have about 50 ft visibility.
Taiwan, on the other hand, recycles everything. Streets are clean.
That is heart breaking.
Changed my view of things quite a bit.
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