During more than one year our partners of Sub Cooperative visited the polluted banks of the Riachuelo and Matanza rivers that borders Buenos Aires city in Argentina. It is, for sure, one of the more polluted places all around the world. More than 3.5 million people live near the oily black, dead waters of the river suffering all sort of sickness.
This is what Sub says about its own work:The Riachuelo river is not just a river with a length of eighty kilometres. It is also a symbol of...
more »During more than one year our partners of Sub Cooperative visited the polluted banks of the Riachuelo and Matanza rivers that borders Buenos Aires city in Argentina. It is, for sure, one of the more polluted places all around the world. More than 3.5 million people live near the oily black, dead waters of the river suffering all sort of sickness.
This is what Sub says about its own work:The Riachuelo river is not just a river with a length of eighty kilometres. It is also a symbol of Buenos Aires. It passes through the city historically aswell as geographically. It is center and edge at the same time. All the mithology of our classic urban identity has the Riachuelo as an obligated referent: the mist, the ship that arrived once with loads of immigrants and now dies rusty in the bottom of the river. The harbor as a place where one can start over, a scene to remember the past and to compose some tango pieces. La Boca ("The mouth", the neighborhood near by the Riachuelo) received this name because it is the mouth of the river, the location through which the river talks. Or spits. Actually, it used to spit: now things pass on by through the river-bed as if it were a dad man's throat. The Riachuelo has 0% of oxygen on most part of its course. It has become a "drowned river", mainly due to the over 4100 industries that throw their toxic wastes on it.
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