No more Cedae?

Protesters this past June

Experience teaches that skepticism is the most appropriate attitude, so let’s cultivate it.

And now for some good news: there’s a possibility that we’ll at last have significantly cleaner water in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, in just a few years.

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Before taking this further, it’s worth posing the age-old question: what ever happened to the US$1 billion meant to clean up Guanabara Bay in the 1990s? Whose pockets did it end up in?

“I didn’t work on the Guanabara Bay De-Pollution Program (PDBG is the Portuguese acronym) so I don’t know the details, but you can infer that the amount was ten percent of what was actually needed,” Luiz Firmino Martins Pereira, Metropolitan Management Executive Group Superintendent, explained to RioReal. Early this month, he gave a surprising interview to the blog. “It was very little…