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Mexican Cleanup Urged to Help Caribbean Tourism
09/02/2011 10:51
Mexican Cleanup Urged to Help Caribbean Tourism
By Alister Doyle
Pollutants ranging from pesticides to illicit drugs have been found in fresh water aquifers beneath a Caribbean resort in Mexico and could damage future tourism unless the region cleans up, a U.N.-backed study said on Sunday.
It said that samples taken from a labyrinth of water-filled caves beneath the “Riviera Maya” south of the city of Cancun showed contamination mainly from sewage, as well as from highways or even golf courses.
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