Guadalajara residents turn to citizen science as water crisis deepens
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Guadalajara, Mexico, Aug 23 (EFE) – Citizen organizations in the Guadalajara metropolitan area (western Mexico) held the "Agua KK Fest" (KK Water Fest) on Sunday to demand a health alert from authorities regarding the water reaching their homes contaminated with fecal matter and heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and aluminum. With piñatas, costumes, and signs shaped like feces, a thousand people occupied the city's main public square to demand…
Guadalajara residents turn to citizen science as water crisis deepens
On a Saturday morning in Guadalajara’s historic Analco neighborhood, residents arrived at the Casa Bandera community center carrying bottles and jars filled with water from their homes. At folding tables, researchers from ITESO, Guadalajara’s Jesuit university, showed them how to dip inexpensive reactive strips into the samples, wait for the colors to change and compare the results against a chart measuring pH, chlorine, lead, mercury and other …
Inhabitants claim that in some colonies the water comes in black, coffee or with sediments and also gives off a smell of rot or rust.
Guadalajara, Jalisco Around a thousand people demonstrated this Sunday in the center of Guadalajara against the water pollution distributed by the SIAPA and demanded basic solutions, immediate health alerts and that the service is not privatized. At the end of the protest, cultural activities and workshops were held to raise awareness about the damage caused by water pollution, the causes and actions that can be done from home in the face of the…
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