Quezon City doesn’t want its residents to get down and dirty…in filthy water.
“Children—and pretty much everyone else—will no longer be allowed to swim and splash in murky esteros (estuaries), canals, rivers, and ponds in Quezon City, as the local government plans to dispatch teams to run after people swimming and getting stuck in waterways,” reports Chito A. Chavez in Manila Bulletin.
The report said that Quezon City officials “issued the warning after children were found making the city’s flooded streets as their private swimming pools, especially during heavy rains.”
However, the officials didn’t say what penalty would be imposed on those caught.
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