Blood-red water that fills a curved waterway near Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on Friday extended a smell in the form of images aired on social media.
The region is the home of tanneries and other industries that hide animals in leather using chemicals, but its parts have many houses and an ecological reserve.
Photos and footage feared that industrial chemicals were thrown into the Sarandi stream, which flows into the plate river in the southern outskirts of the city.
Officials in the municipality, about 15 kilometers (9 mi) south of the Argentina capital, said that they had drugs and the presence of toxins used in drugs and colors.
‘Smell up’
The river looks like “A River of Blood”, resident Mar Ducomals told the AFP news agency. “Smell woke us up. During the day, when we saw this part of the river, it was completely red, all were tainted.”
For Buenos Aires province, the Ministry of Environment said that it had taken samples from the river to determine which substance turned the water red. The ministry said that the color could be due to “organic” substances.
However, local residents Ducomals stated that the river already appeared “blue, green, pink, perpleish, like oil with Greece at the top”.
“It’s terrible, you do not have to become an inspector to see how much pollution the poor Sarandi is suffering from,” Heer said.
Edited by: Darko Jenjeevic
