Industrial Facilities in Mexico

Industrial facilities close to the San Juan river.
The San Juan River in Queretaro State is highly
contaminated and receives discharges from several industries like Kaltex and Kimberly Clark. Greenpeace took samples at the Kaltex discharge pipe and found evidence of the presence of toxic chemicals into the water such as phthalates and TMDD. Kaltex is one of the biggest textile groups in Mexico and has offices and activities in other countries in Latin America as well as in Europe.

Unique identifier: GP04DLX

Type: Image

Shoot date: 28/08/2012

Locations: Mexico, North America, Querétaro

Credit line: © Guadalupe Szymanski / Greenpeace

Size: 2953px × 1977px 3MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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San Juan River Pollution in Mexico

In Mexico, industries discharge toxic substances into rivers and lagoons. 70% of the water has some level of pollution from all sources, in some cases due to hazardous chemicals. The most critical cases are
the Atoyac (between Puebla and Tlaxcala) and the Santiago (between Jalisco and Nayarit). However, this is a problem present in the whole country. The Mexican government only regulates 17 parameters regarding water discharges into rivers but recently, Greenpeace discovered an official report admitting that in Santiago River contains 1090 chemical substances in the river, including some hazardous substances which are used by the industry.

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