The manufacturing industry in Puerto Rico is putting the island's finite water supply at risk, experts told ABC News.
. In the northern town of Barceloneta, a municipality dominated by the pharmaceutical industry, industrial groundwater withdrawals were estimated at 1.3 million gallons per day, according to the USGS.
However, wells in the region are mysteriously drying up, and the South Coast aquifer, the one from which much of the industrial water is being extracted, has been designated as a critical state, experts said.Not only does industry use vast amounts of water throughout the production process, but it also can impact water supplies through polluting or contaminating water with chemicals, Santiago said.
Warning signs are displayed on the fence surrounding the inactive Barceloneta Landfill site in Puerto Rico. About 300 tons of hazardous wastes are located in sinkholes on the property.Water contamination has been rampant in Puerto Rico since the 1970s, environmental scientist Neftali Garcia told ABC News.
Environment and community lawyer, Ruth Santiago, overlooks the Fibers Superfund site in Guyama, Puerto Rico. This site was established to clean up hazardous waste in contaminated groundwater from several industries."Eventually, that polluted water will get into the surface water of creeks, rivers and underground water," Garcia said.
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