Un Salto de Vida
Un Salto de Vida (A Leap of Life) is a local civic association started by residents of the municipalities of El Salto and Juanacatlán, Jalisco state, México, who live along the banks of the Río Santiago (Santiago River). Located along the NAFTA fueled “Corridor Industrial” outside Guadalajara, the Santiago is one of the longest and most lethally polluted rivers in the Americas.
Residents organized themselves to find answers to, and fight back against, the environmental degradation of the river that is their lifeblood. Fusion magazine dubbed the Santiago the “river of death.” In 2015, Vice magazine described it as a “toxic hell” that caused 72 deaths in that year alone.
In a testament to their bravery and innovation, residents continue to mount political actions to demand accountability while creating their own water purification systems and practicing organic farming with the cleaned water.
Low cost, high impact.
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