What do you think about this photo?
It looks like a house in a slum, huh? And it looks like a dump.
Believe it or not this is actually a river.
If you look closely, you can see that trash is floating on the river. This is the Pasig River in the Philippines. Pasig, the largest lake in the Philippines, flows about 25 kilometers from Manila Bay to Lagun de Bay. The problem is that the river runs through the world’s most populous city, Manila, and as a result, it has become a local dumping ground. After World War II, when the city’s population exploded, the river was used to dump industrial waste, household waste, sewage, and pretty much anything else you can think of. In the 1990s, Pasig was considered biologically dead, meaning it could not support any aquatic life due to its low oxygen levels.
But the story doesn't end here.
The picture on the right is the Pasig River today. Since 2008, the Asian Development Bank and the Philippine government have taken the initiative to restore the river. The program brings together city residents, government agencies and environmental experts.
The Filipinos themselves did not expect the ADB's help and slowly, life is returning to the Dead River. Last year, the river won the Asian River Award for its "beauty" and "utility."
The Pasig River won first prize of the Asia River Prize.
That's all I know.
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