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Environmental Law Journal becomes part of Scielo Chile

The publication edited by the Environmental Law Center will be part of an open access collection of Chilean scientific journals in all areas of knowledge.

The Environmental Law Journal, edited by the Environmental Law Center of the Law School of the University of Chile, was admitted to be part of the SciELO - Chile Scientific Electronic Library.

SciELO - Chile is an open access collection of texts from Chilean scientific journals, from all areas of knowledge, which predominantly publish articles resulting from scientific research, and which uses peer review of the manuscripts they receive, which show a growing performance in the indicators of compliance with the indexing criteria.

"We are very pleased with this recognition, which is the result of an effort of continuous improvement of the editorial processes developed by the editorial team, which has resulted in the growing increase in the quality of the articles published over the years," said the director of the Journal, Prof. Valentina Durán Medina, adding "we are grateful for the support of the Faculty, which through its Dean, Prof. Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, and the Journals Program of the Research Department, headed by Prof. Daniel Álvarez, has provided permanent support to the work of the journal."

"Once the collaboration agreement between the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) is signed, the full incorporation of the journal to this collection will take place, starting in 2022" explained the editor Jorge Ossandón Rosales.

This good news is in addition to the admission, in 2020, of the Environmental Law Journal to the SCOPUS database.

As a result, in 2022 the Environmental Law Journal will already be indexed in Scopus, Redib, DOAJ and Latindex, in addition to ScIELO, with the support of SISIB and the Journals Program of the Research Department of the Law School of the Universidad of Chile.

It should be noted that Issue 16 of this biannual journal will be published on December 31.

 

Legal challenges about the provision and of water quality regulations in the Province of Buenos Aires in Argentina

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Abstract

This paper analyzes regulations, scientific studies and a selection of jurisprudence connected to the existence of natural elements harmful to health of natural origin (such as arsenic and fluorine) and of other produced by anthropic activities (nitrates) in water in a selection of districts of the Province of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. The methodology was structured in a bibliographical-documental and descriptive design and we applied legal hermeneutics. Considering all analyzed documents, it is possible to assert that there are high levels of arsenic concentrations in water in the studied area, that damaged citizens filed legal actions focusing mainly on its existence and that they did not usually include fluorine or nitrates. In connection with present regulations, we could notice that in the territory of the Province of Buenos Aires different values of arsenic, fluorine and nitrates are legally allowed in the provision of network water, raising the question about which value should be applied in practice. This situation was not considered in the analyzed jurisprudence.

Keywords:

underground water quality, network water quality, network water regulation, network water jurisprudence

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