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A neighborhood. That's what you get. In Villa de Mayo party Malvinas Argentinas-northwest of Buenos Aires province, there is a story homes, pelopincho in the background, dirt roads and ditches. By one of those ditches passes a brook ill. A man extends his arm and says: "When it rains," he says this is unclean. "Felix Perez, 66, neighbor two decades ago, produces, without any intention, an appropriate neologism. Because when it rains, in fact, all this is unclean. The rising groundwater, the pit latrines overflow, the stream Darragueyra advances over the floors of houses and faeces travel at the speed of the logs and plastic bottles. What is exposed in the middle of that river clumsy and run riot, is a truth that has existed for a long time and even sticks to the confines of Malvinas Argentinas: throughout the country, according to data handled by the Organization Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), 58% of the population tended no sewage and live with their droppings and degrading ways unthinkable (a figure well above that recommended by PAHO, which suggests that a country should not be worth more than 10% of people in those conditions.) The bureaucratic language refers to them as "non-users." But the reality is more filthy: there are 23,200,000 people who must fend for themselves by doing and paying digging, laying pipes, draining wells, to avoid being covered by its own poop. The case is particularly illustrative Malvinas Argentinas by extreme situation of need. According to data provided by the director of Public Works of the municipality, the area is only 5% of tended population with sewage and the 5 points correspond exclusively to the five country clubs that exist in the game. These gated communities, in turn, would complete the cycle aquifer in a surprising way: a couple of years, the country Saint George was sued by the residents of Malvinas Argentinas, because the rainy days, taking advantage of the streets are transformed in rivers there who have used the disaster to pull the stool of the country to the street and avoid the activity came into its own plant sewage treatment, whose operation has a cost. So I said, everything is filthy. And all that is unclean is sick. Blanca Chavez, 56, neighbor Malvinas Argentinas for eighteen, lost half a lung because of the "fluid derangements" of the municipality. His is one of many examples of what the World Health Organization (WHO) was called "water-borne diseases" rushing to problems more than 23 million Argentines who, as 61.3% of the inhabitants of Buenos Aires province, live in areas without sewer or water lines sound. Waterborne diseases are varied, but among them are gastroenteritis, diarrhea, typhoid, malaria, skin fungus, cholera, polio, parasitic diseases, osteoporosis, hepatitis A and E, and respiratory infections. This last item comes the problem of Blanca Chavez: Aug. 26, after three operations, they cut half a lung, because it was pierced by the humidity. A twelve year old child was also ill, but not so: two months he was interned because he found water in the lung. "Every time it rains it gets us into the filthy water in the mattress" she says. The last time I even broke the fridge. And when I went to complain to the municipality said 'throw the fridge in the sun to fix it alone. "
private waters. If you do not have sewers, and do not want to live with their own waste, the only way is self-management possible. Not to sink into the shit there Malvinas Argentinas neighbors are up to three septic tanks that are drained from trucks on payment of 150 pesos per month. Also, if you want to have potable water-90% of the party does not have, you need to pay 4,000 pesos for a company to dig 80 meters that can reach up to the water aquifer Puelche. All these procedures are a perfect example of a mechanism that Leila Devia, lawyer and teacher of Food and Environmental Law at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), called the "commodification of water." "Water can be considered a commodity in the context of the global market? -Is Devia asked during the last Regional Water Forum held in the province of Cordoba by the Ombudsman's Office. Can be available as a tradable commodity and handled as a private business? What is the impact the rights and interests of investors with respect to human rights and environmental protection measures? I believe that, in response, we have to be made is that an adequate supply of water is a basic human right guaranteed by governments. " Until that happens, people will manage their rights (and waste) human to private companies. And that has consequences. The population of Malvinas Argentinas, for instance, is lower middle class or lower directory. This implies that most of the people, unable to afford to 4,000 pesos a deep excavation, opt-in best-to make a pit 18 to 35 feet deep, leaving 2 000 pesos communicates with the Napa Pampeano: a stream of groundwater that is heavily contaminated, and with which people bathe, wash dishes and also some opportunities hydrates.
a saucepan. "I am the insulted party." That is one of the summaries of himself Roberto Lucero, director general of Public Works Malvinas Argentinas. When explaining why the population is now water without sound, Lucero takes its arguments (to a greater or lesser extent, keeping the spirit and changing some names can be extended to the territory):
a) The hydraulic project to pipe the stream Darragueyra requires 120 million pesos, the municipality can not meet that expenditure and the budget was allocated by the nation just last year. So far has made 40% of the casing, and estimated that 60% will be made within, which ends in a year.
b) streams, as well as the roads are the jurisdiction of the province of Buenos Aires and that is a problem that should resolve the province.
c) With regard to sewers, Malvinas Argentinas has no river to dump treated water and does not have a place to make a plant of the size needed to cover the excreta of all the people. But there is a plan for progressively smaller plants. "However, this is a hostile city public works, because it's like a pot-synthesized Lucero, who does not have sewers in their home and must pay a tanker every twenty days. We enrolled five streams and the land is in a low area and floodplain. Similarly, progress has been noticeable. In the last rain, the neighbors have not been inundated. "
-LUCERO, WERE PASSED BY WATER .-
Inundarte is that it is the water two or three days inside your home with a significant amount of water. People are entered, but later eased. Still, it is true, we can not work miracles. Within a year the ugliest part is going to be resolved. According to analysis conducted by the University General Sarmiento (UGS), indicators of drinking are completely overwhelmed in Malvinas Argentinas. While the World Health Organization states that there should be no more than 30 mg of nitrate per liter of water, UGS studies found areas such as the Emmaus area, where the nitrate concentration exceeds 230 mg. "If we drink water, you pay in can, but there are people they have no money and ends up taking the tap "says Miguel Paredes, president of the NGO Darragueyra Creek Neighbors, which calls for the piping of the stream and the laying of sewers and water supply networks in Malvinas Argentinas. For this reason there are many sick kids. They have rashes, bronchial problems, chromium in the blood, gastroenteritis, anyway. Do not have kids in this neighborhood. "When the neighborhood was flooded, and filthy, the kids not only get sick. They are also prevented from going to school. The catch is that, if not go to school, many of them probably do not eat. "The flood moves to the dishes of home," says Paredes. So in the year 2006 filed a lawsuit against the municipality and against the province of Buenos Aires for breach of its obligations and environmental damage, physical and psychological means to live in these conditions. " Wall looks at the district, this morning it rained. The soil is a fetid fumes cream and stream-defined by many as "an open sewer" - runs its course in silence. Periodically, the river is crossed by a cement precarious bridges: is the resource found by the neighbors to cross the threshold of his house and not fall into the ditch. "Until we bridge the stands," said Paredes, without pride. And with that says otherwise well. OPINION
A basic human right
Eduardo Mondino (Ex Ombudsman)
Access to water is a basic human right. It is a strategic resource that move in the future to others who have been a source of great conflict. The mere mention of the right not sufficient if there is a commitment to enable this resource. Consider for a moment that 1,100 million people without water in the world and some 2,600 million people lack sanitation, ie no access to drinking water or have the means to clean up their waste. In our country there are places where water is far away, or has the presence of significant amounts of nitrates and arsenic. That can be fatal. One in five deaths preventable diseases infectious is linked with water, say the United Nations. In 2025, two thirds of the Earth's population will suffer from lack of water, moderate to severe. Therefore it is urgent that governments ensure water sanitation universal access, under conditions suitable for human consumption. In that sense, I am convinced that we must find for this modern society a new model of state. We no longer serves the nanny state that does everything and the state fails to do nothing. Neither the State pyramid, which is conceived as a unique reference. You should go to the search for a state that is able to incorporate into their management people, civil society. If we listen, be easier to find solutions.
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