My Picture that Lies: Water pollution turned to a waterfall

I created the picture to the left from a picture of polluted water coming out of the sewer. I chose the original picture because it wasn't pleasant and it was shocking to me to see the damage done to water by humans. All in all, I wanted to make something ugly look beautiful. I dont know where the original image came from, but it was probably taken in a lake where the sewage is drained. What I first did to the original photograph was change the color of the dense green water into a light blue-green with white to represent the splash from the waterfall, I had to use a layer on top of the original to create this effect. Secondly, I had to get rid of the sewer tube that was in the picture so I used the clone tool and cloned the rocks on top of the tube, this made it seem like the tube was never there. I also played around with the opacity of the water to make it look lighter and realistic. After a couple of minutes of changing things here and there I was pleased with the outcome of my fake waterfall. When I manipulated the photo I was doing it to make something ugly look beautiful, and to play pretend for a while that water pollution isn't a major problem in the world. If it wasn't for this special project I would say that manipulating this photograph is bad because you are taking away a reality from people's eyes. If human beings don't see how they pollute our water they will never learn!