A canal in a suburb of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires turned radiant red on Thursday, alarming local livents.
Pictures and videos show the fervently coloured water flothriveg into an estuary, the Rio de la Plata, which borders an ecoreasonable reserve.
Local media tells propose the colour may have been caparticipated by the dumping of textile dye, or by chemical misuse from a cforfeitby depot.
The Environment Ministry shelp in a statement that water samples had been getn from the Sarandí canal to choose the caparticipate of the colour change.
By postponecessitate afternoon the colour of the water had lost some of its intensity, the AFP news agency telled.
Residents have claimed that many local companies dispose of poisonous misuse in the waterway, which runs thcimpolite an area of leather processing and textile factories some 10km (6 miles) from the centre of the capital.
A livent, a woman called Silvia, tbetter local news channel C5N that although it is has turned red now, “other times it was yellow, with an acidic smell that produces us unwell even in the throat”.
“I live a block from the stream. Today, it has no smell. There are not many factories in the area, although there are warehoparticipates.”
Another livent, Maria Ducomls, tbetter AFP industries in the region dump misuse in the water, and shelp she had seen it coloured contrastently in the past – “bluish, a little green, pink, a little lilac, with grrelieve on top”.
