Pollution: Riachuelo La Matanza
Ignacio Kahnlein and Loana Niebuhr
Main sources of pollution
The main sources of pollution of the watershed are sewage and industrial discharges mainly from the food sector. The latter very toxic and the previous include heavy metals, as:
Lead
Mercury
Zinc
Cadmium
Copper
Magnesium
Nickel
Hydrocarbons
Etc
How population is afected?
The effects that the people residing in the vinicity of the river have are associated with deteriorating health. Most diseases are cardiovascular, including skin tumors and diarrhea, caused by breathing foul odors and by contact of comsumption of contaminated water and other substances. Poor sanitary conditions, deterioration of the quality of groundwater and recurrent flooding affecting low-lying areas and accentuate the transmission and contagion.
How the government is envolved?
Erradication of middens, water processing plants and investigation of the nearby industries (PISA and ACUMAR)