I live in an urban area that is actually a rural area

I live a few kilometers from the Capital City. One would expect that I have access to all the comforts living in a city would offer. Well in a country like ours, the comforts include, horrible roads, slums, semi permanent shop structures and leaders who seem to have shady dealings.

Well, on the way to my "by the neighborhood standards" acceptable house, I found that the river was over flowing. I didn't know about it until I got there. Since the rest of the place was dry, I assume the river path must be clogged with rubbish. And who is going to clean it up? We the citizens who throw the rubbish there, are going to wait for our leaders and the Government to come clean up.

And so we have to wade throw contaminated water until the river water reduces. eeewwww. I thought this only happened in places that are far from the Capital and therefore the Government never looks there (I too blame the Government for this hahahaha).