A tourist’s primer: The cleanest and dirtiest rivers, and the best beaches
FRIDAY, APRIL 07, 2023
The Pollution Control Department has certified as good the water quality of at least half of the 70 rivers it examined, amid an expected influx of visitors to beaches countrywide during summer.
Due to the fish scarcity, fishermen in Brazil turn to recollecting trash
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 08, 2022
In Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, the lack of fish due to high levels of water pollution has driven fishermen to go from fishing to cleaning the ocean.
Call for Thailand’s ‘unacceptable’ water pollution problem to be tackled
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2017
Wastewater is still a prominent environmental problem for Thailand, with the pollution watchdog cautioning that Thai laws are still too weak to control and reduce water pollution.