She also got this quote from the Rio 2016 spokeswoman:Its not going to happen because there was not enough commitment, funds and energy, Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada told Outside the Lines. Now a few months from the start of the games, Rio has given up on keeping those promises. When bidding to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Jaineiro promised the International Olympics Committee that it would eliminate 80 percent of the sewage found in the citys notoriously filthy water, and would fully regenerate the lagoon in which rowing and kayaking events will be held. Outside The Lines Bonnie Ford has a thorough examination of the current state of Rios water pollution, and things arent looking so great. The athletes have also resigned themselves to the fact that they will be competing in water that could very well make them sick.
There is still time to get the waters clean, and it actually would be fairly cheap. For example, the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas could be brought to a healthy state using bioremediation, and probably for less cost than one incidence of cleaning out 40 tons of dead fish after a toxic algae bloom.
