Rio Resorts to Stop Gap Clean-Up of Bay to Host Olympic Sailing
Rio’s attempts at cleaning the waters where Olympic sailing events will be held in 2016 are so far behind schedule clean-up efforts are now stop gap rather than lasting, local officials admitted on Thursday.
“Cleaning rubbish from the Guanabara Bay will be a stop gap effort,” said Carlos Portinho, the state’s sub-secretary for the environment. “But it’s what we have to do.”
Portinho, who took office this week and is charged with cleaning the bay’s notoriously fetid waters, criticized the urban districts that surround the bay for contributing to the pollution.
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