Aguas Argentinas is facing a possibly multimillion-peso lawsuit for alleged environmental, health and property damages in communities on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires. Citizens there have filed a suit against the company, which is controlled by France's Suez, for practices and inaction that they say have led to a rise in the water, causing sewage to rise into gardens and streets and water to rot the walls of homes. "The situation is pretty bad. People are suffering health problems, and houses have damp walls," Osvaldo Bassano told GWR. "We want the justice system to investigate." Bassano is the president of the Association for the Defense of Users and Consumers Rights (ADDUC), a non-profit organization that is helping around 100 citizens with the case. He did not know when a ruling could be made.
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