Pollution in the Riachuelo

Hi! We are a group of teenage students from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and we want to tell you about the serious problem of pollution in one of our most important rivers, the Riachuelo.

This river is in the neighbourhood of La Boca, in the south of Buenos Aires. This is a very important tourist spot where people used to fish because there was a lot of fish in the past. But now the problem is that the water is pitch black with pollution bacause factories dump chemicals and people throw rubbish into the river, and now, there is no life there.

We don't live in La Boca, but if we lived there, we would ask the government to make a dump. Yet, we can try to solve the problem by throwing our rubbish in the right place when we go there. Or we could recycle, too.

We could also ask the government to pass a law prohibiting the factories from dumping chemicals into the river.

What do you think we should do?

Alan A., Christian L., Federico V., Francisco R.,

Gastón C. & Matías M.