THREAD ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN PARAGUAY BECAUSE NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT.

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The report states that in the last 24 hours, 2,723 heat sources were detected between the departments of Santa Cruz in Bolivia, Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil and Alto Paraguay.

A gray haze has covered the sky of Asunción for weeks, and not for meteorological reasons, but as a consequence of the fires, mostly caused, that advance on the banks of the Paraguay River due to the inaction of the authorities.

The smell of smoke permeates the Paraguayan capital and it is enough to go out to the street or open the windows to breathe through the masks the polluted air and start the cough, the itchy throat and the watery eyes.

The smoke in the sky day and night has made air pollution visible and the persistence of fires in recent days, although these have been repeating since March, as the head of the Fire Prevention Department (PCI) of the Municipality of Asunción, Alejandro Buzó.

"We have surpassed a total of 80 fires since March (...), with the severity that the largest ones have occurred in protected areas, in reserve areas located, in one case, in the Bay of Asunción, "Buzó said in a telephone conversation.

While waiting to close the count of hectares burned, the head of the PCI Department highlighted the disappearance due to fire of between 60 and 90 hectares of the total of 300 that make up Banco San Miguel, a protected area on the banks of the Paraguay River .

Apart from the impact on vegetation, Buzó also recalled the impact on air quality, which increases "respiratory problems" in "an extremely complex year" due to the coronavirus. The non-governmental entity Aire Paraguay updates the air pollution levels in Asunción every day,+

+with a calculation based on the regulations of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the measurement of air quality.

In the early hours of the morning, the air quality in the Asunción neighborhoods was "very unhealthy" in the last hours and remained between "unhealthy" and "moderate" the rest of the day, with a "good" quality during the early morning.

"Firefighters try to put out a fire in the Mbigua area, in Asuncion. (Paraguay)”

Another issue that is happening in Paraguay too is that a company has been in charge of polluting a lake and none of the authorities has responded to the complaints of the residents of the place,

I have gone several times this week and the smell is terrible and the animals that drink the water have died quickly.

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"The red color that the water acquired is due to the invasion of cyanobacteria fed by the high content of nitrogen and phosphorus," the laboratory director of the Ministry of the Environment, engineer Rosa Morel, told AFP.

Laguna Cerro, one of many that form like meanders of the Paraguay River on a slope where the water course curves before reaching Asunción, was crystalline until four months ago.

The chemical elements found come from the organic decomposition of meat and solid waste from the leather, as well as from dead fish due to the effect of contamination, explained the expert.

"The fish died due to the excessive content of salt, sodium chloride and sulfide discharged into the channel," he added. A splash could damage human skin, he added.

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