World's Most Polluted river


	World's Most Polluted river

thefoxalmighty

6-8-2007 2:24 AM

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river, pollution, environment

thefoxalmighty says:

i first thought it was a dumping Ground..

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6-18-2007 5:41 AM

ghiberti

It's in Jakarta for all you scanners - nice clip

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Villagers collected water for their simple homes and rice paddies thrived on its irrigation channels. 
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Today, the Citarum is a river in crisis, choked by the domestic waste of nine million people and thick with the cast-off from hundreds of factories. 
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