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‘It’s beautiful when it’s clean’: the Argentine neighbourhood saving a contaminated river
Sewage, dog carcasses and industrial waste clog Argentina’s second most-polluted river. Meet the activists cleaning it up Twenty-three years ago, María Monges looked around her flooded neighbourhood and knew something had to be done. Founded in 1998 in Buenos Aires province’s San Martín district, the community of Costa Esperanza sits on the banks of the Reconquista, Argentina’s second most-polluted river and owes…