Argentina: Escobar widens 48 km of streams ahead of Super Niño flood risk

Municipal crews in Escobar, Buenos Aires, are dredging and widening 48 km of the Escobar stream from Ingeniero Maschwitz to the Luján River, plus cleaning the Libertad Corridor zanjón, to mitigate overflow risk. The work is a preventive response to an anticipated Super Niño event, though the scale and completion timeline remain unconfirmed. This matters because flood prevention infrastructure directly reduces disaster risk in a vulnerable peri-urban area.