Looking for a decent hotel in Rio
Jan 29, 2014 | 10:44 am
#16
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,667
What? The water in the postos has never been an issue, since is the same anyone will have at the hotel. The issue are the irregular showers on the beach itself which are set up by the beach vendors by pumping groundwater.
Every year the talk about dirty sand is discussed. It's nothing new, nothing unknown. If the sand strip is occupied by thousands, it's only natural that it gets dirty, even if the water was absolutely unpolluted.
What do you really expect when this happens?
Every year the talk about dirty sand is discussed. It's nothing new, nothing unknown. If the sand strip is occupied by thousands, it's only natural that it gets dirty, even if the water was absolutely unpolluted.
What do you really expect when this happens?
Here is one article about the problem:
http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-new...beach-showers/
I certainly hope the expensive hotels filter and treat their guests' shower water if it comes from the same source.
"Every year the talk about dirty sand is discussed. It's nothing new, nothing unknown."
Maybe to you residents, or to Brazilians who have seen (media outlet) Globo's reports over the years.
It is certainly likely to be "new" to people, including the WC visitors, who have never been to Rio. They might be forgiven for assumimg that any competent government (such as one that might be given a WC and Olympics) would oversee and regulate such things.
"If the sand strip is occupied by thousands, it's only natural that it gets dirty, even if the water was absolutely unpolluted."
It certainly is polluted, especially after a rain.
But the sand likely remains contaminated from decades of pollution washing up on the beach, and which remains on the sea bottom there and nearby. Even large crowds of bathers do not produce the level of fecal colliform found in the sand.
"What do you really expect when this happens?"
In the U.S., beaches with that type and level of contamination are closed until it is fixed.
The sand would likely be removed entirely and replaced with clean.
Jan 30, 2014 | 1:53 am
#17
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Posts: 557
Here is one article about the problem:
http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-new...beach-showers/
I certainly hope the expensive hotels filter and treat their guests' shower water if it comes from the same source.
"Every year the talk about dirty sand is discussed. It's nothing new, nothing unknown."
Maybe to you residents, or to Brazilians who have seen (media outlet) Globo's reports over the years.
It is certainly likely to be "new" to people, including the WC visitors, who have never been to Rio. They might be forgiven for assumimg that any competent government (such as one that might be given a WC and Olympics) would oversee and regulate such things.
"If the sand strip is occupied by thousands, it's only natural that it gets dirty, even if the water was absolutely unpolluted."
It certainly is polluted, especially after a rain.
But the sand likely remains contaminated from decades of pollution washing up on the beach, and which remains on the sea bottom there and nearby. Even large crowds of bathers do not produce the level of fecal colliform found in the sand.
"What do you really expect when this happens?"
In the U.S., beaches with that type and level of contamination are closed until it is fixed.
The sand would likely be removed entirely and replaced with clean.
http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-new...beach-showers/
I certainly hope the expensive hotels filter and treat their guests' shower water if it comes from the same source.
"Every year the talk about dirty sand is discussed. It's nothing new, nothing unknown."
Maybe to you residents, or to Brazilians who have seen (media outlet) Globo's reports over the years.
It is certainly likely to be "new" to people, including the WC visitors, who have never been to Rio. They might be forgiven for assumimg that any competent government (such as one that might be given a WC and Olympics) would oversee and regulate such things.
"If the sand strip is occupied by thousands, it's only natural that it gets dirty, even if the water was absolutely unpolluted."
It certainly is polluted, especially after a rain.
But the sand likely remains contaminated from decades of pollution washing up on the beach, and which remains on the sea bottom there and nearby. Even large crowds of bathers do not produce the level of fecal colliform found in the sand.
"What do you really expect when this happens?"
In the U.S., beaches with that type and level of contamination are closed until it is fixed.
The sand would likely be removed entirely and replaced with clean.
Sand contamination occurs not only because of sea contamination, but also due to groundwater contamination and trust me, that condition is pretty widespread in beaches in Brazil with any presence of permanent vendors, restaurants or anything like it.
I will now let the thread go back to the original subject. I just thought there was need for some perspective, considering that you're trying to alarm people as if other popular beaches in Brazil or in the world didn't have problems with contaminated sand.
Jan 30, 2014 | 6:22 am
#18
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,667
You should really do some research about contamination, perhaps hire testing institutes in order to compare samples from beaches in different beaches in Brazil and abroad. Many governments only analyse water quality and never or only occasionally the sand.
Sand contamination occurs not only because of sea contamination, but also due to groundwater contamination and trust me, that condition is pretty widespread in beaches in Brazil with any presence of permanent vendors, restaurants or anything like it.
I will now let the thread go back to the original subject. I just thought there was need for some perspective, considering that you're trying to alarm people as if other popular beaches in Brazil or in the world didn't have problems with contaminated sand.
Sand contamination occurs not only because of sea contamination, but also due to groundwater contamination and trust me, that condition is pretty widespread in beaches in Brazil with any presence of permanent vendors, restaurants or anything like it.
I will now let the thread go back to the original subject. I just thought there was need for some perspective, considering that you're trying to alarm people as if other popular beaches in Brazil or in the world didn't have problems with contaminated sand.
Fecal colliform is from feces, not food kiosks.
WC fans are not coming to "other popular beaches...in the world". The forum has recently found it reasonable to "warn" travelers about potential airport overcrowding, so discussing the dangers of actual existing beach pollution in an area they might think of as pristine is also in the same vein. Poster Boboqui opened up the subject here, did he not?
