POLLUTION IN SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA-BOLIVIA

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he city of Santa Cruz has 600 companies, it considered? NDOS m industrial park? s largest in Bolivia, but only one third of the surface of this "park" has the sanitation b? psycho necessary. M industrial sectors? S polluting the region? N are the manufacturers of vegetable oil, sugar industry, manufacturers of batteries and battery? Ace ace? As tanneries. B sanitation company? Psycho "Saguapac" does not have the resources needed to build the infrastructure at the same rate of growth of the industry. Industrial companies are not connected to the sewer discharge waste water into drainage channels. Wastewater from industries with access to sanitation b? Psycho are conducted at two large gaps in oxidation? N where it is treated. A laboratory controls Saguapac par? Meter input and output. Wastewater rates are calculated on the basis of drinking water so that companies with almost no water wells are charged fees for wastewater. Lack the resources necessary to develop the infrastructure of elimination? No waste. For this reason, industrial wastes are not subject to any classification? Nor separation? N.

The sources of contamination? N are from agriculture, population and industry and consequently the r? Years and also? No groundwater? Lines set? N heavily polluted and in great danger.

  

  

  Santa Cruz is the city m? S contaminated Sudam? Rich

04-10-2007 - Hispanic Journal Boliviano (Santa Cruz) The city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra exceeded? levels of cities m? s contaminated Sudam? rich and yesterday it located? in the first place, because of the density of smoke, due to the slash and fire outbreaks, seg? n a NASA report, distributed yesterday by the Department of Science B?, basic Universidad Tecnol? GICA Private (UTEPSA) . The health effects begin to be felt.

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Ximena Canedo, head of laboratory of the Department of Science B? the UTEPSA, basic, explained? Paintings by est.? n available p? NASA's web page and monitor fire outbreaks and levels of poluci? n Latino am? rich, the city of Santa Cruz is at an alarming level of contamination? n because smoke, reaching a rate of 5.57, supporting this score with cities in Brazil that also? n suffer the burning of grassland and slash.

In comparison, use, levels m? S cr? Ticos reached the city of Santiago de Chile and the M? Mexico, after considering the m? S polluted the region? N, was 3 to 4, although these figures due to smoke from industries and veh? ass.

The year you passed this same? Little, Canedo said, bas? NDOS in im? Genes NASA satellite, Santa Cruz was at the level 1.75 and 2, which means that this year you, the smoke tripled? the effect of pollution. In the? Little rain, the city has a level of contamination? N from 0.2 to 0.4.

The situation? N has mobilized the government authorities. Vice Minister of Civil Defence, Hern? N Tuco, said that if forest fires out of control Bolivia can? To use cloth ses friends like Venezuela, Argentina and Peru?, To prevent further disasters. For the moment, 500 military help quell the flames in the eastern part of pa? S and the Chaco.

   

Emergency in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz est? full of at least 705 hot spots, seg? n responsible for the Fire Control Program of the Prefecture, Esteban Cardona.

Faced with this situation? No, the Government department, by resolution? N adopted by the 23 directors, declared? Yesterday emergency throughout the territory crossing? o.

Citizens called? Virtual group? have called for the population? n, v? to the Internet, a march to be held this Thursday at 16.00 in the Plaza September 24 to ask people to stop the illegal burning in the countryside and the city, and demand Government authorities m? s actions to stop this problem.

Ins? N the National Director of Epidemiology? To the Ministry of Health, Alex S? Sanchez, the department m? S health is concerned in the Santa Cruz department where he was registered? 9,000 cases of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI).

Tan s? As seven of the 37 that exist in the pa? S still operating, the rest suspended? flights by the intense smoke.

The international terminal of El Alto, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz Viru Viru, in addition? S de Sucre, Potos?, Yacuiba and San Joaquin? N est? N operation, while 30 est? N closed due to poor visibility, inform? the CEO of Aeron Nautical Civil, Javier Garc? a.

The Administration? N Airport and the Navigation and Ancillary Services? N A? Rea (AASAN) has 37 airports in charge, but 86 percent of est? inoperable. Garc? To said the fires cause enormous damage to the transport operations? Defendant, affecting thousands of passengers.

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