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How did it start up and break the first plant to process solid residues across Piura?   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photos by Simon Garragate .   SULLANA, Peru – A cistern truck gets again to a sewer hole at the skirts of Bellavista City toward El Cucho Village. It contains residual water from Humboldt squid process that is made at the Industrial Zone. The Sullana Province’s Municipality (MPS as its initials in Spanish) admits that the equivalent to 70 vehicles of that kind (about 30 tons each one) eliminate residual water to Chira River through that hole. This means 2.1 million liters every 24 hours.   “It’s rich in ammonia and nitrogen,” the manager of one processing plants explains to me. The liquid smells bad, but it is not polluting technically neither legally, first, because it’s about an enriched fluid, second, because the Peruvian Criminal Code does not specify the stench as a cause of contamination crime.   But, the things change when the whole spill...

It costed US$ 187,500 but its users prefer going to Chira Valley.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   The sunset between Districts Marcavelica (first) and Salitral (second) as one of our producers took while he was running along Chira Valley. (Photo by Luis Correa / FACTORTIERRA)   SULLANA, Peru – The papers say bikeway . For real, it may be called free community car parking . In Santa Rosa Urbanization, West Sullana City , some neighbors use the lane for bikers like a parking for their cars, pick-ups, or motorcycles – it apparently has not been hard to get it. The cement of conntention bumps has pulverized quite easily – there aren’t today, already. Add to this, the paint marking the signs from, on, and toward the bikeway is practically vanished.   Damaged accessories of the bikeway in West Sullana City and the use the neighbors really give it. (Photos by Luis Enrique Curay , especial to Semana and distributedd by FACTORTIERRA)   Initiall...