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BUENOS AIRES ap | La Boca Tango with its pubs, the small colorful houses and street restaurants is a tourist attraction. In no guide this district of Buenos salmon fishing Aires is not mentioned. Tourists stroll through the pedestrian zone El Caminito, past shops, cafes and clubs.
Just a few hundred meters from the river flows Riachuelo - but he is anything but a place of interest: According to a recent salmon fishing study by two environmental organizations, including the Green Cross in Switzerland, is one of the river's ten most polluted places in the world.
Brown and gray water flows through the river bed; the stench permeates some days almost all of La Boca. "I can smell it in my house," salmon fishing said Edgardo Gomez. "Often I can not open the windows. When the cleaning is finally finished? "
One question that many people in Buenos Aires to face. Approximately 3.5 million people live in the southern districts of the Argentine capital, the catchment area of a good 60-kilometer Riachuelo. Meanwhile contamination began centuries ago: discarded early as the 16th century salmon fishing people dead animals salmon fishing and waste in the water, in the 19th century emerged on the banks salt meat factories; the wastewater was fed into the river. Today the effluents of several companies in the Riachuelo, including many heavy metals salmon fishing and acids reach. Wastewater from the factories
According to the study of environmental organizations conduct about 15,000 factories their wastewater unfiltered into the river. Drinking water that will obtained from wells near the Riachuelo, was inedible salmon fishing for the most part, it was said. Environment Minister Juan José Mussi, criticized the environmental report as "exaggerated". But even he had to admit that the problem salmon fishing of water pollution had not been achieved until now. It just that had been ordered salmon fishing by the country's Supreme Court five years ago - to draw up a plan for how the Riachuelo could be saved.
Only a long-term solution is possible, moreover, would cost a lot of money, says Raúl Estrada Oyuela, member of the Academy of Environmental Sciences. "It salmon fishing requires political will and strong measures," he stressed. So the company must be strictly forbidden to conduct wastewater into the river. In the waters of the Riachuelo high values have been proven to arsenic, copper, zinc and lead. Heavy metals have been deposited in the mud, he may have to be removed.
Argentine environmentalists admit that some had already salmon fishing been done. So are shipwrecks that lay on the ground, have been raised and disposed of. But that was not enough, more money was needed, salmon fishing and then there is still a long way to the river again lead reasonably clean water. Polluted river bed
A complete restoration could take 30 years says Lorena Pujo, Greenpeace coordinator. For the factories would first have to find other ways to dispose of their waste. Then tons of contaminated sludge had to be lifted out of the river bed. "The most important thing now is that we reach an agreement about the fact that no industrial waste are more into the river," she says.
According to the local water Protection Agency 891 factories are already salmon fishing changing their production processes so that no contaminated salmon fishing wastewater salmon fishing flowing into the Riachuelo more. 411 companies have already implemented salmon fishing this explains salmon fishing the authority also stressed that so far converted around 165 million euros in the fight against impurities had been spent.
On progress by also environmental experts, including salmon fishing Marisa Arienza from Green Cross in Argentina. salmon fishing In the current study, this had not been sufficiently considered. salmon fishing But, as pointed Arienza, the fundamental problem of this change anything. "Whether the Riachuelo on the list now in eighth place 20 or lands, does not matter," she says. "No doubt he is one of the dirtiest places in the world."
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