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Un Salto de Vida

HQ 🇲🇽 Mexico · 1 project tracked

A Nursery Beside the Foaming River

Fresh Water

🇲🇽 Mexico

The waterfall at El Salto once drew honeymooners; industrial discharge turned it into a wall of chemical foam, and every one of 178 residents tested had heavy metals in their body.

100percentResidents tested who had heavy metals in their bodies
178peoplePeople in the toxicological study
2,005yearYear the collective formed
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