White guy swimming in Boeng Trabek sewage canal

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Brody wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:24 pm
bong.kuit wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:09 pm My girl just mentioned rumours on FB that he wanted to raise awareness of the pollution in Cambodia.
Isn't that waterway just for transporting sewage to the treatment plant?
No. That waterway runs down to Boeung Trabek where I think some veges are grown behind the nice homes in south Toul Tom Pong. Then it goes to the pumping station at the bottom end of st 271 where it is pumped to the other side into Boeung Tumpon where they grow trakuen.

@John Bingham , might know more about that.
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Username Taken wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:48 pm
Brody wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:24 pm
bong.kuit wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:09 pm My girl just mentioned rumours on FB that he wanted to raise awareness of the pollution in Cambodia.
Isn't that waterway just for transporting sewage to the treatment plant?

If he wanted to raise awareness of pollution, he could have just rolled around in some discarded plastic baggies on the riverside.
No. That waterway runs down to Boeung Trabek where I think some veges are grown behind the nice homes in south Toul Tom Pong. Then it goes to the pumping station at the bottom end of st 271 where it is pumped to the other side into Boeung Tumpon where they grow trakuen.

OK, UT, but I think my point still stands...that waterway is not really pollution in the classic sense. It's being pumped to agricultural areas. And there are probably many other more impactful pollution problems that need addressing in this country.

But thanks for always being on hand to try and contradict my posts, though :thumb:
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I wasn't contradicting anything.

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accident haha. i guess Cambodia is done with barangs and put them where they belong.

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Would be interesting to know how much more that canal is filthier than Ganges
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Amkoo wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 5:09 pm Would be interesting to know how much more that canal is filthier than Ganges
Unless you see the local khmers doing this:

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my guess would be very much more filthier.. thumbdown
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Those brown people are so colourful.
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this is racist to call this person a white guy....
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If you enjoy noise pollution and obnoxious driving practices, Phnom Penh is the place for you!

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