Footage of water tanker spraying urinating man is from Peru, not India
The post, which received more than 18,000 views, shares a 25-second video showing a water tanker spraying a man urinating in public.
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Screenshot of the Facebook post captured on July 23, 2025, with a red X added by AFP
The post circulated days after Indore was declared the cleanest city in India in an annual government survey (archived link).
The same footage with similar claims was also shared on Facebook, Instagram, Thread and X, drawing user comments suggesting that they believed it to be from Indore.
"That's why my Indore is number one in cleanliness," wrote one.
Another said: "Such people should be treated this way so that they never dare to make a mess again."
But the footage was not actually filmed in India.
A reverse image search with keyframes from the video revealed that the same footage was shared on Facebook on March 15 with a Spanish-language caption saying it shows a water truck spraying water on a man urinating near a train station in Lima (archived link).
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Screenshot comparison of the clip shared in the false post (L) and the video published on Facebook
Additional searches found other posts on Facebook also saying the incident took place in Lima near the metro tracks (archived here and here).
A building named "Cinemark" can be seen in the video -- which AFP geolocated to the Peruvian capital using Google Street View imagery (archived link).
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Screenshot comparison of the falsely shared video (L) and Google Street View imagery, with matching features highlighted by AFP
Further keyword searches found a report published by local newspaper La Republica published a report on March 15, 2025, which also stated the incident was filmed in Lima (archived link).
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