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Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital
Ruling, based on constitutional rights for natural features like Quito’s Machángara River, appealed by government
The city government appealed the ruling, which is based on an article of Ecuador’s constitution that recognizes the rights of natural features like the Machángara River. The city of 2.6 million people dumps all sorts of effluents and contaminants into the Machángara, which starts high in the Andes mountains. But by the time it runs through Quito, it encounters problems such as a near-total lack of treatment of the waste water that is dumped into it.
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