A stream on the outskirts of Buenos Aires turned blood red on 6 February, causing anxiety among residents who blamed it on pollution. The Ministry of the Environment for the province of Buenos Aires said in a statement that water samples had been taken to determine what substance had caused the discoloration, citing the possibility of an "organic dye".
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00:00The smell woke us up, well, in the course of the day when we looked to this side of the stream
00:29it was all red, completely dyed, it looked like a stream of blood, but it was terrible.
00:38It's terrible, you don't need to be an inspector to realize the pollution that this poor Arroyo Sarandà is suffering, which is here in Manabellaneda.
01:05This is the province, but the industries are the ones that throw the waste to the stream.
01:09The industries that we have here, right next to the Arroyo Sarandà stream.
01:13We have this industry that has the Indero canal, next to the Arroyo Sarandà stream as well.
01:18Last time, the same color that was costing the company of Special and Dangerous Waste, was the same color that was in the stream.