Tietê River, São Paulo Area
Personal memory by Laura Bento
2015 CE • São Paulo, Brazil
"I grew up listening to stories of how my grandparents used to go swimming in the Tietê River, São Paulo area. Now, the river is so polluted that the water is dark and smells horrible."
Image: Ana Paula Hirama, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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