I stand corrected. I've never been in Ohio and could not have imagined something like that in the midwest.
It's our claim to fame, Sanguine. ^-^
(But it wasn't anything like India here in Ohio, even at the industrial pollution's worst moments).
I've been to India and this doesn't surprise me a bit.
Every river and lake stinks. People use the rivers as latrines, laundries and bath tubs, and occasionally as funeral homes.
For me, being there illustrated the highly flawed argument that 'all religions are the same.' Hinduism is a filthy, nasty religion and creates the kind of garbage happening there.