Activists sat on toilets along Rio de Janeiro’s famed Ipanema beach on Saturday to protest against the lack of basic sanitation in the Brazilian city. <br />Nearly 70 percent of Rio’s sewage is untreated and allowed to flow into iconic beaches such as Copacabana, Ipanema and the Guanabara Bay.<br />Rio’s state government has pledged that the city’s waterways will be clean in time for the 2016 Olympics.<br />No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | http://www.euronews.net/nocomment/
