Is Your Water Agent Orange Flavored?

bad people and bad water down in argentina.


"From the beginning of the year", said Fernando Gerones, mayor of Quilmes, "we have been trying to bring attention to the problem that the drinking water for the region, which is drawn in Bernal by Aguas Argentinas, has its source just 2.8 kilometers from the coast where sewage is dumped in Berazetegui."


Aguas Argentinas is terse in denying that the pollution present in the water at its source is passed on to consumers. "The possible increase in contamination of the water of Rio de la Plata does not affect the quality of the water produced and distributed by the company," a company spokesperson said.


However, a study published in El Porteo magazine showed that the water in "seven districts of Greater Buenos Aires is unfit for human consumption, containing nitrate levels that are three times too high." The findings were corroborated by a study conducted by the Environmental Chemistry and Biogeochemical Laboratory at the Faculty of Natural Sciences in La Plata, which went even further, revealing that some of the fish of the zone were contaminated with PCBs. This highly carcinogenic, and consequently banned substance, is a component in various chemical weapons, including napalm and the defoliant "Agent Orange."

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