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The Pasig River in Manila doesn't seem to look nearly as bad as the author claims: https://www.google.com/maps/@14.5674227,121.0375559,3a,90y,77.8h,72.18t/data

• Symbiote 5y ago
  That particular river was cleaned up in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_of_the_Pasig_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_of_the_Pasig_Ri... There are plenty of (older?) pictures of it covered in plastic online. I don't think there's any reason to doubt the author's picture.
  • hk__2 5y ago
    You can also see it on Google Street view as it has some imagery from 2014.
    • rootsudo 5y ago
      It's still pretty bad, but it's a river, it depends where you look - the image depicated is near Tondo or the mouth where it enters Manila Bay.
• hk__2 5y ago
  If you reverse-search the second image you can find a 2018 article that gives a bit more detail [1]. It does describe the Pasig River as "Manila's most important and heavily polluted waterways". [1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5806619/Manila-trash-bin-waterway-choked-plastic.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5806619/Manila...