After the last talk held at the UNQ by the Regional Forum in Defense of the Río de la Plata, Health and Environment was discussed on "Water Quality of River Plate."
The meeting by Dr. Leda Giannuzzi, Chair of Toxicology Faculty of Sciences, National University of La Plata showed a result that puts a warning light as defined it as "the third most polluted in the world, surpassed only by the Salween River (which runs of Nepal to Myanmar) and the Danube, which runs several European countries but in Romania has its most critical levels of pollution.
According to research, pollution is given by "chemical contamination-free product discharge or any treatment-control waste industries, refrigerators, metal, tannery, among others, by the discharge of 2 million cubic meters sewage daily, for household detergents, agrochemical fertilizers and pesticides, and pollution from landfills whose highly polluting juices always end in the Rio de la Plata ".
" surprised and concerned at the levels of metals Heavy found in samples taken from the river, chromium, copper, lead, zinc, mercury and cadmium, among others, and other carcinogenic compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyls (known as PCBs) are dissolved in water "raised from the Forum.
