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[btatro]

WOW. That is a contamination cesspool, yuck! I wonder what those people are looking for?

[Shortpoet-GTD]

godarna, on 24 September 2011 - 03:29 AM, said:

Seeing these pictures make me very sick. Unbelievable, how can people let it come this far. A very good example of the fact that there are still governments not taking their responsiblities and educate their population.

Governments are made up of people.

Why don't the people living there take responsibility for it?

They surely have the population to support clean-up.
Have an all out "clean up the river" week, and then maintenance river cleaning days once a week thereafter.
People could dig pits if they don't have the front loaders to dig a landfill, and bury the junk there.

[katdolores]

Education came in late after industrialization, I guess. Poor river, although I have hope for this river to change.

[angeldrb]

It sure is a disgusting sight. I wonder how there are still people living near that river. The government should have a cleaning program for that. Yes, it would take a long time, but they have to start somewhere or it'll just get worse. I know one of the rivers in our country is included in the top 10 or 20 of the most polluted rivers in the world, but the cleaning program is ongoing and it looks better now, though it's still dirty. I think the governments have to invest in protecting the environment more than the military nowadays.

[lizzie29]

I feel so sorry for the river. It doesn't look like a river at all but a sea of trash. It makes me so sick. It does make you realize how bad we treat nature. I hope that they would decide to clean this river soon. I bet it would really enlighten them. I had never really seen anything like this. It's just so horrible. They should really take action and do something about it.

[ErnestDalbero]

That's disgusting... It reminds me of the great floating island (Made out of plastic and trash) that's lurking in the pacific ocean at the moment. I don't think that we can keep living on this planet if we keep this level of pollution up.

[still learning]

ErnestDalbero, on 26 October 2012 - 07:39 AM, said:

... It reminds me of the great floating island (Made out of plastic and trash) that's lurking in the pacific ocean at the moment....

What floating island?

You mean the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch?"   http://en.wikipedia....c_Garbage_Patch
Not a visible island.  From reading firsthand accounts, not actually that much stuff visible at the surface of the ocean.  Some, but apparently by the time the garbage gets into the "patch" most of the plastic gets broken up into tiny fragments distributed up and down in the water column.  Lots of stuff but definitely no island.

I don't see the need for exaggeration.

Regarding the river in the first post. try googling "Citarum River," get a fair number of hits.  Kind of depressing overall.  Not a new kind of problem though.  I can recall seeing much the same thing on a smaller scale in another Southeast Asian country fifty years ago.