Pollution In Medellin River

Medellin as the great cities of the world is facing problems of pollution to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. This essay aims to show some problems and look for a possible solution.

Today it is not a secret that the Medellín river is not in optimum quality but is also know that in the metropolitan area, has a treatment plant wastewater in the town of Itagüí, and is already working on the construction of the second plant in the town of Bello to treat wastewater northern area, the difficulty arises in that the plants are only designed to treat organic pollutants and need another option to combat inorganic contaminants (chemical).

The pollution of the river today is divided into organic matter and chemical matter, and other problem is the dumping of solid wastes in many cases performed by residents of the street. And to compound the situation, the deforestation on the banks of river for its channeling.

Treatment plants currently have in the Valle de Aburrá, and those currently working in construction, are for treatment of organic pollutants type. The system of wastewater collection, leads the dirty waters to plants, where they are treated, and discharged back into the river, once decontaminated. With this system, in the not distant future, type organic contaminants will not be a major problem.

The problem of street people that dump solid waste in the river, and deforestation on the banks of the river, will be treated by linear parks whose construction is planned in the coming years to make it more pleasant space in every way. (Visually, sensitively)

The biggest problem is the chemical pollution of the river. This type of pollution is due to companies located in the southern part of the Valle de Aburrá. These companies know all the process of recovery that has been done on the river in recent years and which is planned for next years, and they still doing dumping of large amounts of chemical waste directly into the river.

After reprimands made by the authorities to companies, follows the step of imposing fines to the companies which discharge water contaminated with chemicals directly into the river without having tried before; but several companies that pollute the river, although not the most powerful, polluting the river and prefer to pay the fine because it would be more expensive to treat water contaminated with chemicals that imposed the fine.

On the other hand, although the competent authorities on the subject make calls attention and imposes fines to these companies for an end to these discharges, companies often don’t have more options, because don’t have system for correct disposal of these chemical wastes. And these processes of chemical waste treatment result in huge expenses to those companies which could bring lower profits, unemployment, and in some cases bankruptcy.

One possible solution to this problem for companies, whether powerful or not,

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