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Rio struggles to redeem famous bay

Τρίτη, 18 Μαρτίου 2008 17:17

Despite a huge cleanup program, Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay remains badly polluted by raw sewage and industrial waste.Government programmes to restore the bay have gone on for more than a decade and cost an estimated one billion dollars. Those efforts have yielded little reward and environmentalists say the area is an ecological disaster zone. Reuters reporter Darcy Lambton has more.


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