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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Wed Apr 1, 2015, 05:51 PM Apr 2015

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Yuck in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

This aerial view shows polluted water flowing from the Barra channel to the Barra beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 23, 2015. Rio de Janeiro’s mayor acknowledged in a television interview Monday that the run-up to the 2016 games has proven a “wasted opportunity” to clean up the city’s blighted waterways.

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Yuck in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... (Original Post) Playinghardball Apr 2015 OP

If only there was a fearless, intrepid investigative journalist in Rio Blue_Tires Apr 2015 #1

Now, stop that at once... MineralMan Apr 2015 #2

You should see Guanabara Bay... Ace Rothstein Apr 2015 #3

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

1. If only there was a fearless, intrepid investigative journalist in Rio

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2015, 06:47 PM

Apr 2015

willing to challenge that country's status quo...

MineralMan

(146,333 posts)

2. Now, stop that at once...

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 1, 2015, 07:56 PM

Apr 2015

Ace Rothstein

(3,186 posts)

3. You should see Guanabara Bay...

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2015, 08:33 PM

Apr 2015

...where, I believe, the rowing competitions will be held. Parts of the edge look more like a crust than they do water.

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