You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its rivers.
Pollution is the physical expression of corruption. So what should we
conclude about a country whose rivers are systematically
exploited,dumped on
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/water-firms-raw-sewage-england-rivers>and
bled dry?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/12/government-britains-rivers-uk-waterways-farming-water-companies
In chapter one of John Bellamy Foster's "The Return of Nature", you can
read E. Ray Lankester's similar complaint from about 150 years ago:
At its foulest, “the Thames mud was blood-red (really ‘blood-red,’ since
the colour was due to the same blood-crystals which colour our own
blood) with the swarms of a delicate little worms like the earth-worm,
which has an exceptional power of living in foul water and nourishing
itself upon putrid mud.”
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