The flow of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, has become bright red this week, which has encouraged residents to express concern that industrial chemicals could be guilty.
The residents of Sarandía, about six miles south of the capital, said to the local news that chemicals from several factories and tanks could change the color of the stream in the area, which flows into the río de la plata, the main water body between Argentina and Uruguay.
Rivers in the area have a history of contamination problems. For example, it was called the Matanza-Riachuelo River basin one of the most conquered Waterways in Latin America. Officials have announced large projects of public works to prevent the sewer and industrial discharge from entering.
The Ministry of Environment for the Buenos Aires Province said in a statement that on Thursday morning she answered the report that the Sarandía creek was red and had taken water samples for testing. It said the strange shade could have been the result of a “kind of organic color”. The Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday that the test results were not yet available.
Maria Ducols, who lived in the area for over 30 years, she said Agence France-Prese That she noticed that the stream had turned into red after the strong scent had awakened. Argentine newspaper La Nación He described it as “a painful scent, like garbage.”
“It looked like a river covered with blood,” Mrs. Ducols said.
She said the stream over the years turned other strange colors – bluish, greenish, purple, pink – and that sometimes he had a oily glow. “It’s scary,” she said, accusing pollution of variable colors.
Moira Zellner, a public policy professor and urban affairs at Northeastern University, who grew up in Buenos Aires and worked there as an environmental counselor on Rijeka and Land Rehabilitation Projects in 1990, blamed the “chronic disadvantage of regulation and lack of implementation” for problems ” region pollution.
“Unfortunately, I’m not too surprised,” she said about the red color of a stream in Sarandí. “There is a huge, long pollution history in Buenos Aires rivers, and it’s really hearty. I know that some of the population that settled there really suffer from consequences.”
Carlos Colángelo, President of the Professional Council for the Buenos Aires Province, told local sales news, infobae.comthat he was worried that the chemicals could be inserted into the stream.
“We have to wait for the results of the analysis, but we can say that the company that would throw it out is completely unscrupulous,” he said. “I don’t think they are chemical professionals, because at no means would they let this waste be thrown into the water.”
