Citarum is a river in West Java, Indonesia. It has an important role in the life of the people of West Java, as it is used to support agriculture, water supply, industry, sewerage, ...
This is one picture of that river some years ago; we can see a clean pure river, perfectly normal and far away from the human specie. ...
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Nowadays, about five million people live in the basin of the river. Look what they did to it:
Yes, the river's surface is completely covered with garbage! People have to make room between the trash for the boats make it through.
We keep saying: that is not ok!
By: Lu*
2 comments:
Hallo Margarida, nice old picture from Citarum river. Just curious, where did you get the picture?
You are welcomed to visit www.citarum.org. There is effort for Citarum river recovery. Hope there will be better future for the Citarum river.
Warm regards, Diella
Hi, Diella
Fist of all thanks for yout comment.
I found this image on wikipedia website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citarum_River).
It's really good to see that some people are really making efforts to clean that mess. It's really shoking how far pollution has gotten.
Chek out the rest of our blog; there's a lot of "Save the Earth" posts that you should like.
Thanked for your visit,
Lurdes
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