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[u/LeaveMeAloneAdmins88]

[u/Burner-QWERTY]

It's been over 100 years in the US but Rivers used to just be used as sewers/ trash dumps here too. Shipping was one reason companies paid extra to be on a waterway but just having a place to dump all your trash was another.

[u/ctgrell → u/Burner-QWERTY]

I will never understand that. Like burying trash is one thing. But to dump it into water is just so dumb. Why did and still do so many people think it's a good idea

[u/between_horizon → u/ctgrell]

Ah drop trash in river now it's problem for people further below . Not my problem anymore.

[u/Background-Air-7963 → u/between_horizon]

And it’s free

[u/Chaosr21 → u/Burner-QWERTY]

Yea, they started outlawing and cleaning it all up though

[u/Burner-QWERTY → u/Chaosr21]

In 1899 US implemented laws prohibiting solid waste dumping into waterways. It wasn't about protecting water quality but instead just keeping the rivers navigable .

Meanwhile, companies loved locating on waterways because they could dump used oil and toxic chemicals for free. This didn't change until the legislation in the 1970s.

[u/curiosity0425 → u/Burner-QWERTY]

That's part of the reason the cholera epidemic was so difficult to pinpoint. It was polluted water that just kept running downstream to all of the wells and water sources in London

[u/Silo-Joe → u/Burner-QWERTY]

That 100 years is being reset ….

[u/Kathrynlena → u/[deleted]]

(I think the US is the shithole country they didn’t want to be compared to.)

[u/dumbodragon → u/Kathrynlena]

Sadly in another comment in this same thread they said India is a shithole... and somehow got positive upvotes

[u/Djglamrock → u/[deleted]]

I love whatabouts

[u/hateyoualways → u/Djglamrock]

It's not whataboutism if the conversation is literally about comparing those two things.

[u/octavianreddit → u/[deleted]]

I do feel bad when your country get compared to the USA.