A current near Buenos Aires turns red, “like a blood -covered river”

A stream in a suburb of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, turned into a bright red color this week, prompting the population to worry that industrial chemicals can be responsible.

The residents of Sarand, about six miles south of the capital, told local news means that chemicals from many factories and tanning in the region can change the color of the course, which flows to Rio de la Plata, a large group of water between Argentina and Uruguay.

Rivers in the region have a history of pollution. For example, the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin was called One of the most pollutants Water passages in Latin America. The officials of the main public works projects announced the prevention of sewage and industrial entry.

On Thursday morning, the Ministry of Environment to Boinens Province said that it had responded on Thursday morning to a report that the current in Sarande was red and that he was taking water samples for the test. He said that the terrible color could have been the result of a “type of organic dye.” A ministry spokeswoman said on Friday that the test results were not yet available.

Maria Docoms, who has lived in the region for more than 30 years, told the region, France-Bask Agency She noticed that the current had turned red after it wakes a strong smell. The Argentine newspaper Nation She described it as a “nausea, like garbage.”

“It looked like a blood -covered river.”

She said that the current had turned into other strange colors over the years – bluish, green, purple, and pink – and that sometimes he had a glow of the oil. She said, “It is terrible,” and she blames pollution on the changing colors.

Mira Zellner, professor of public policy and urban affairs at the University of North Eston, who originated in Buenos Aires and worked as an environmental consultant in processing projects in the river and land there in the 1990s, and blamed “chronic lack of organization and lack of application” in favor of the problems of pollution in the region.

“Unfortunately, I am not very surprised,” she said about the red color of the current in Sarande. “There is a long history of pollution in the rivers of Buenos Aires, which is really sad. I know that some of the population who settled there really suffer from the consequences.”

Carlos Colanglo, head of the Vocational Council for Chemistry for the Buenos Aires Province, a local news port, said, said a local news port, Infobae.comHe was concerned that chemicals could have been thrown into the current.

He said: “We have to wait for the results of the analysis, but we can say that a company that will completely get rid of this is completely conscience.” “I don’t think they are chemical professionals because without any circumstances they will not allow this waste to be thrown into water.”