Berisso’s beaches are the most polluted after 45 years of neglect

The Berisso coast is the hardest hit of the Río de La Plata due to contamination by sewage from the region that is dumped into the water. Added to this is the breakage of the pipe that transports waste, present for more than 4 decades.

“The problem mainly affects the poorest population, who live on the shore and use the beaches in summer. Studies from the UNLP, the UBA, as well as the reports from Hospital de Niños show an alarming presence of parasites per cubic meter of water, and its consequences on health, especially for boys and girls” said Horacio de Belaustegui, president of the Biosfera Foundation and a graduate in Ecology and Natural Resources.

Water is a renewable but finite resource, increasingly coveted in the world, to the point that massive migrations are due to its lack. In this delicate context, one of the most important reservoirs on the planet, the Río de La Plata, continues to be punished by pollution.

After highlighting that the river has become a pure and hard dump “because the waste is dumped almost untreated”, the expert pointed out the need to have, once and for all, a regional vision of the environmental issue. “The State is the main responsible, since it has organizations supposedly dedicated to the subject and with professionals and technicians, whom they present as suitable, and who charge,” the professor of Ecology of the National University of Luján forcefully stated, to which He clarified: “companies and citizens are also responsible. There are many firms that carry out illegal dumps, and citizens are not aware. ”

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