Our local creek
Yes, this is the creek that runs along the other side of the botequim (neighbourhood bar) to my place.
It’s disgusting.
It stinks on a warm to hot day.
It’s eroding and will soon threaten the botequim.
The neighbouring bar (not our botequim) dumps their rubbish in it.
Our sewerage goes into it untreated.
The local fish monger’s drains empty fish guts into it every day.
The creek empties into the Rio Cabuçu
It feeds into the Rio Cabuçu, that eventually empties in the Sepetiba Bay; one of the most polluted parts of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio Cabuçu
Until the people take a stance scenes like this happen around the world.
The local government isn’t interested because to rectify this situation attracts too few votes.
There is no policing of the rivers and creeks to see who is throwing away their rubbish here instead of using the rubbish collection services.
Why?
Eco-Crap 
Posted by oawritingspoemspaintings on July 3, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Pity when our world is so beautiful if only we’d take slightly care of it!
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Posted by argentumvulgaris on July 6, 2014 at 8:30 am
>oa, absolutely right. Brazil isn’t the only place that has problems like this. I used it as an example because it’s less than 30 yards from my gate; and it makes me so sad.
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Posted by oawritingspoemspaintings on July 6, 2014 at 8:50 am
And understandably so!
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Posted by Alex Jones on July 10, 2014 at 1:13 pm
The problem is not for the local government but for local residents to take responsibility for. If your neighbors don’t care about their local waters, why should anyone else?
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Posted by argentumvulgaris on July 10, 2014 at 9:02 pm
>Alex, I appreciate what you say, but we are dealing with an abysmal education system where the local residents don’t have the impetus to better themselves, that is a government problem.
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