INQUIRER.net: Trying to revive toxic Pasig River

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Trying to revive toxic Pasig River Feb 19th 2013, 04:16 MANILA, Philippines—Boys shout in delight as they flip backwards off a bridge. Fishermen quietly cast rods out. They are joyful acts that should belong to an earlier era, before the Pasig River turned toxic.   Yet some slum dwellers in Metro Manila whose shanty homes choke the river and its tributaries have little choice but to live as if the national capital's most important waterway is clean.   "It's hot. We have no other place to swim and escape the heat," 16-year-old Christian Ivanes said as he took a break from jumping off a bridge near the mouth of the river with his friends.   Ivanes, his seven siblings and a few hundred other illegal squatte... Keep on reading: Trying to revive toxic Pasig River Media files: Pasig-River.jpg (image/jpeg)

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