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“Fifty years ago this river was one of the most polluted rivers in the world,” said Lewis Pugh, looking at the nearly 500-kilometre-long waterway, whose mouth in New York reached its mouth on Wednesday (local time).
“We need clean, healthy rivers,” the 53-year-old told reporters after completing the entire route from the source of the Hudson in the Adirondack Mountains to Manhattan in a month without outside help. With the campaign, Pugh wants to draw attention to the importance of protecting waters, shortly before the start of the UN General Assembly next week.
“Other rivers can also become clean”
In the past, the Hudson sometimes changed color overnight depending on what industrial pollutants were added to it, said Pugh, who is also the U.N. Protector of the Oceans. The river is now so clean that you can swim across it. Lewis hopes that the example will serve as inspiration: “If this is possible in the Hudson,” other rivers could also become clean again, he emphasized.
(AFP)
Source: Blick
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