BUENOS AIRES, 7 Feb. (askanews) – The waters of a river on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, who colored crimson red, The inhabitants of the Municipality of Avellaneda worry, 10 kilometers from Buenos Aires. “It is terrible, it is not necessary to be an inspector to see how polluted the poor Sarandì river is here in Avellaneda,” the resident Maria Duccolms explains to AFP.

He woke up the smell. During the day, when we looked at this part of the river, it was all red, all stained. It looked like a river covered with blood, it’s horrible, “he adds.

«We saw the river in other colors, We saw him bluish, greenish, pink, purple, with a fat that looked like oil, Marroncino as concrete. It seemed that it could be crossed by walking, “he recalls.

“But These are the factories that download their waste in the river, The factories we have here along the Sarandì river. We also have this factory with a canal that runs alongside the Sarandì river. The last time, the same color that runs alongside the company of special and dangerous residues was the same color that was in the river, “denounces.

The Provincial Ministry of the Buenos Aires environment declared in a press release that water samples were taken to determine which substance caused the coloring, raising the possibility that it is an “organic dye”.

At the end of the day, the coloring of the river, which crosses an area of ​​textile and leather processing factories located less than 10 kilometers from the center of Buenos Aires, has lost its intensity, reported AFP.

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