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Here's another river before

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This is the river now

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how do we know these rivers are the same? they look like completely different areas and not because they're "clean"

They are the same

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How is it even possible to pollute this much? Anyways, congrats on actually getting rid of the filth.

holyshit i thought it was a road

years of neglect.

Here's another river: before

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>How is it even possible to pollute this much
Neglect, corruption and no funds to fix it

Here's the same river now: its a park (kind of)

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>912kb
>82kb
Wow there was 830kb of garbage

it looks so nice :D How was it cleaned?

I wish I could do a project like this somewhere where I live. I'd let little wood ducks roam around and plant some water lilies for them!

>we need money for dem programz
Why not volunteer and clean up and recycle on your own accord?
Holy shit this world is going to be so hellish when white people die out.

Why aren't you out picking up trash right now?

Getting rid of illegal settlers and building homes for them
And basically cleaning the place
Making people volunteer and giving them allowances
Putting plants, getting a waste management system set up

>Why not volunteer and clean up and recycle on your own accord?
Oh look, Mr White Man who knows nothing about the 3rd world thinks it's as simple as that

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I wish I could do that, but that's a lot of infringing on other's right's here in America. I could probably guerilla garden, though. While guerilla gardening is illegal, not many would care unless it increased their property value and insurance price somehow. People would probably pick and steal all of the flowers for their gardens. It's happened to plenty of parks, specifically in white suburban neighborhoods with gardens. It's happened to me before. I can never plant fruit in my front yard or it would all be taken.

Can you lend India your river cleaning ideas? They really need it

>you don't even know!
Then explain it.

Recycling is useless if you don't have the infrastructure for it, white man.
And it takes a lot of money and volunteers to rehabilitate sewage systems, drainage systems, etc that clog trash around the areas.

Thank you for making this world better.

>we don't have the infrastructure!
>its too hard to unclog garbage from our sewage and drainage systems
what if you just don't throw shit into the rivers or sewers?

Do you guys really eat balut? Is it a common dish? How do you like it?

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do you really think somebody hasn't said that before?

These rivers and esteros has beem rehabilitated as far back as 2011

even before we know duterte existed

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Even if you don't throw the trash into the rivers the governments throw it in open dumps/throw trash like shit, that end up in the river
Also corruption, common in the 3rd world
A long time ago we literally had a "trash village". Basically the entire village was one big trash can.

Because, you know, we have no money for a proper waste management system? Because 3rd world?

It's common as street food.

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They dont flow so the trash accumulate.
it is possible to have this again it dosent always look like that all the time

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cleaned by ABS CBN foundation during President Aquino's admin with Gina Lopez as the head

Flip are small enough, you could trash drave

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Like I said those pictured about are esteros that dont flow, they get cleaned from time to time but it

What would be a dish from the West you find repugnant or would never eat?

You eat it with vinegar so imagine hot moist sour chicken

I dunno. Give some examples.
I have eaten:
Frog
Dogs
Pig Bile (It's good)
Chicken that had every bone in its body broken (while alive)
Pig blood (good)
Pig brain (good)
Bull's penis and testicles

Haven't eaten snake yet though.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZXvGHM0jFU

There is actually a fishing competition in the pasig river back in 2013

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There's nothing stopping you from going on a mile walk with a leftover grocery bag.

If you live in a typical suburb you'll easily fill it.

The idea is kind of gross from a Western perspective but maybe it doesn't taste bad at all. I wouldn't know hahah I'm not sure if I would have the guts to try it though

I've never heard of people eating dogs here but that aside, I would never try these too except for the frog which an uncle served me once saying it was chicken and I threw up afterwards

How do you even manage to pollute a river this much?
I mean didn't people think "Hey, this river looks pretty dirty, maybe we should stop throwing trash into it because it is our source of water"?
Also I once saw a documentary about a river in india. That thing was polluted so much there was literally no life in it anymore.

>The idea is kind of gross from a Western perspective
UMA DELICIA
but in all seriousness it helps if you just close your eyes and take a bite. Mind you not everyone here actually likes the thing aswell, they hate it for the same reasons you guys do as with every *questionable* native food we have.

this is cool stuff but damn this much pollution is just crazy. even the poorest squatter camps here aren't this filthy.

Apparently they don't.
The trash accumulates into the river and because of inaction and neglect it turns put like that.
Plus informal settlers try to set up houses in drainage and sewage zones causing trash clogging. Manila is the most dense city in the world for many reasons, and can be traced to lack of infrastructure.
The government even throws the trash in the river sometimes, due to loack of budget to properly manage the waste

Many reasons really and most ofnot can be explained in three words: third world problems.

Sadly that tiny area and space are going to be posted and memed in the internet for 20 yrs more or so and people will continue to think that it as always looked like that and still look like that.

right now I bet you guys think this was recent

but some of those has been cleaned up and looking like a jungle for almost 10 years now

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Do you want to see my mountains now?

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Provincial, rural mindset moving in the city tbhwy

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>Do you guys really eat balut?
Some of us, yes. Think of the frog dish in Japan but only very few Japanese eat those.

>Is it a common dish?
Old people and poorer ones.

>How do you like it?
Never ate one in my entire life.

>It's common as street food.
What city are you from? It's a dying dish here. When I was 23 years younger, there used to be a lot of vendors roaming at night to sell them but now only a few ministores sell them, usually on bus terminals at night.

this hurt to watch