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Buenos Aires – 7 December 2015
1. Shantytown houses along river bank strewn with litter and pollution
2. Pollution in river
3. Houses in shantytown onto polluted river
4. Houses in shantytown onto children standing on riverbank
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Buenos Aires – 16 December 2015
5. Local resident, Hernan Ledezma, walking on river bank near his house in shantytown
6. Bridge crossing Riachuelo river with shantytown in background
7. Ledezma walking into his house in shantytown
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hernan Ledezma, local resident: ++ AUDIO AS INCOMING ++
"The plan is to remove the homes that affect the shantytown and relocate them in other sectors."
9. Man pulling wheelbarrow full of rubbish near river bank in shantytown as Ledezma and his neighbors look on
10. Various of crane at Riachuelo river lifting pollution out of waterway as part of World Bank clean-up program
11. Wide of Riachuelo river with synonymous 'Transbordador' bridge crossing waterway
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Christophe Prevost, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank:
"The Matanzas-Riachuelo basin is one of the ten most polluted in the world. For 200 years sewage has been dumped here and then industrial waste. It takes time to reverse the whole process. It takes work, it requires extensive projects of a very large scale."
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Buenos Aires – 26 November 2015
13. Various of members of the World Bank and local stake holders visiting projects connected to Riachuelo clean-up project
14. Map laying out project plan
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesko Hentschel, Country Director for Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, World Bank:
"If you go through the favelas (shantytown) and the streets of the slums (shantytowns) in Buenos Aires you see how lacking water and lacking sanitation is for people is still a major problem in improving their lives and those of their children. So for us, from a perspective of working to help the poorest and also have a sustainable development in urban areas - this is a top priority."
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 16 December 2015
16. Boats involved in Riachuelo clean-up project on river
17. Tourists in synonymous street (Caminito) of Buenos Aires in La Boca neighborhood that sits beside Riachuelo river
STORYLINE
A World Bank-financed project is hoping to revitalise the Riachuelo river in Argentina, one of the world's most polluted urban waterways.
The plan builds around a loan from the global financial institution of 718 (m) million US dollars and aims to limit both direct discharge and to oxygenate the 64-kilometre (37-mile) long river that runs through Buenos Aires.
Known as 'Project Riachuelo,' the effort forms part of an goal to breathe new life into the river and the well-being of those that reside on its banks.
The river is lined with factories and shantytowns that house about 20,000 people near its basin.
Many residents will need to be relocated, and among them is Hernan Ledezma, whose family are soon to be moved.
While the 34 year-old says he finds it hard to leave the neighborhood where he was raised, he's glad that finally a plan is in place to decontaminate the Riachuelo river.
In 2014 Riachuelo was named as the eighth most polluted place in the world. The study by environmental activist groups the Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross of Switzerland, said makers of chemical products are responsible for more than a third of the contamination.
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