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During this Tuesday day, the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) updated its “Arsenic Map” with data obtained from more than 350 samples and, in this way, demonstrated that several districts have concentrations of the element above the values recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and that ten municipalities in Buenos Aires and more than four million inhabitants were banned from using water from the network or well.This clas…
Buenos Aires, 25 November 2025-Total News Agency-TNA-.In the vast Buenos Aires pampa, where groundwater should be a source of life, it has become a toxic cocktail that threatens the health of millions. Arsenic, a carcinogenic metaloid of geological origin that filters from the eroded Andes, pollutes up to 87% of the aquifers of the Province of Buenos Aires, exceeding the safe limits in vast regions. Along with it, nitrates of agro-industrial fer…
The Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) re-launched its map of arsenic, a tool that monitors the presence of the compound in groundwater and surface waters throughout the country. The report, prepared on the basis of the analysis of more than 350 samples, re-activated the alarms: more than 4 million Argentines could be consuming water with arsenic levels higher than those recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Among the dis…
A report by ITBA identified elevated levels of arsenic in seven Argentine provinces, including Entre Ríos. In Concordia, the director of EDOS, Javier del Cerro, assured DIARIOJUNIO that the city “does not have that problem” and that local analyses are carried out regularly.
A report by the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) published a map updating arsenic levels in the water in different parts of the country. La Pampa is among the regions with the greatest presence of this chemical element. Strictly speaking, the presence of arsenic in the water in the northwest pampeano has been known for decades. That was one of the reasons to promote the construction of the North Colorado Aqueduct, currently slowed do…
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