Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Pestilence

Just to expose some more of the horrible water management of my home land, I searched for a picture of how this small waterfall on Santiago river, in the State of Jalisco, Mexico, looked like before it was severely polluted. This is what I found:
Taken from http://www.mexicoarmado.com/campismo/159949-lo-que-ya-no-veras-en-campamentos-fotos-antiguas.html
Attributed to Henry Jackson, 1884
This is what it looks like today:



You can see the foam flying through the air, its a truly stinking spectacle; the result of years abandonment in water pollution policies. People have been even murdered by this pollution (heavy metal poisoning! as you can read here) and yet little is being done about it.

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