Video from a suburb of Argentina’s capital of Buenos Aires shows a bright red waterway. The area has multiple tanneries that use chemicals to treat leather.

Image via Shutterstock Things certainly sound like they're getting biblical in Argentina. That darn Moses is at it again turning a river red with blood. Okay, so it's not actually blood. Although, that would be a late game plot twist.

A canal in a suburb of Buenos Aires turned a startling shade of bright red on Thursday, leaving residents alarmed as the unusual phenomenon spread into the nearby Rio de la Plata estuary. Images and videos captured the vividly coloured water flowing near an ecological reserve,