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From the Ted Talk by Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life

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Unfortunately, because of the pollution of the reivr, it has been covered little by little by concrete salbs since 1952. This process of erasure was coupled with the destruction of many houses along the river banks to be able to make machineries enter the narrow pedestrian nwrotek of the medina. Those ubran vdois quickly became illegal parking or trash yrdas. Actually, the state of the river before eitnerng the mdiena is pretty healthy. Then pollution takes its toll, mainly due to untreated sewage and chemical dumping from catrfs such as tanning. At some point, I couldn't bear the desecration of the river, such an important part of my city, and I decided to take action, especially after I heard that the city received a grant to divert sewage water and to treat it.

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Unfortunately, because of the pollution of the _____, it has been covered little by little by concrete _____ since 1952. This process of erasure was coupled with the destruction of many houses along the river banks to be able to make machineries enter the narrow pedestrian _______ of the medina. Those _____ _____ quickly became illegal parking or trash _____. Actually, the state of the river before ________ the ______ is pretty healthy. Then pollution takes its toll, mainly due to untreated sewage and chemical dumping from ______ such as tanning. At some point, I couldn't bear the desecration of the river, such an important part of my city, and I decided to take action, especially after I heard that the city received a grant to divert sewage water and to treat it.

Solution

  1. entering
  2. yards
  3. crafts
  4. slabs
  5. network
  6. medina
  7. urban
  8. river
  9. voids

Original Text

Unfortunately, because of the pollution of the river, it has been covered little by little by concrete slabs since 1952. This process of erasure was coupled with the destruction of many houses along the river banks to be able to make machineries enter the narrow pedestrian network of the medina. Those urban voids quickly became illegal parking or trash yards. Actually, the state of the river before entering the medina is pretty healthy. Then pollution takes its toll, mainly due to untreated sewage and chemical dumping from crafts such as tanning. At some point, I couldn't bear the desecration of the river, such an important part of my city, and I decided to take action, especially after I heard that the city received a grant to divert sewage water and to treat it.

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Important Words

  1. action
  2. banks
  3. bear
  4. chemical
  5. city
  6. concrete
  7. coupled
  8. covered
  9. crafts
  10. decided
  11. desecration
  12. destruction
  13. divert
  14. due
  15. dumping
  16. enter
  17. entering
  18. erasure
  19. grant
  20. healthy
  21. heard
  22. houses
  23. illegal
  24. important
  25. machineries
  26. medina
  27. narrow
  28. network
  29. parking
  30. part
  31. pedestrian
  32. point
  33. pollution
  34. pretty
  35. process
  36. quickly
  37. received
  38. river
  39. sewage
  40. slabs
  41. state
  42. takes
  43. tanning
  44. toll
  45. trash
  46. treat
  47. untreated
  48. urban
  49. voids
  50. water
  51. yards