Tiete River: From Amazing To Stinky
Personal memory by Rodrigo de Mattos Eustachio
1985 • São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil
There is a river in Sao Paulo, Brazil that is stinky and completely polluted, right in the middle of this giant metropole. This river looks like an open sewer. Its name is Tiete. When I was a kid I remember myself seated on my grandfather's lap listening to the stories of his childhood when he used to go swim on Tiete River with his friends and how clean the water was. The politics are pretending that are cleaning Tiete River for decades but nothing really happens. That's a shame for us citizens of that huge and great city...
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