Below is an excerpt from an article featuring NULab Co-Director Moira Zellner, commenting on Buenos Aires river pollution concerns.
“Moira Zellner, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, who grew up in Buenos Aires and worked as an environmental consultant on river and land remediation projects there in the 1990s, blamed ‘chronic lack of regulation and lack of enforcement’ for the region’s pollution problems.
‘Unfortunately, I’m not too surprised,” she said of the red color of the stream in Sarandí. ‘There’s a huge, long history of pollution in the rivers of Buenos Aires, and it’s really heartbreaking. I know some of the populations that have settled there are really suffering from the consequences.'”
You can read the full article on The New York Times here: Stream Near Buenos Aires Turns Red, ‘Like a River Covered in Blood’.
