“Imagine one of these days 39 degree peaksthat an official has to arrive, with a turnkey, to cut off the water to a home,” he said in an interview with Underlined.
From the union, they insist that the population be responsible with the consumption of water, but they do not want to reach the limit of cutting off the supply. “It is true that water is being wasted out there at a critical moment, that is so. But when we pass that to quantities, you have to see how much people are really spending and how many for pipes that have been in OSE 10, 12 days, generating a puddle in the street. That is continuous waterit is as if I watered three, four football fields with a single tear”, he remarked.
The union president added that OSE is having big problems with breakage and the losses that are generated due to not have enough staff to fix those bugs. “Unfortunately, the emergency situation ends up giving us the reason for what we proposed. With the current structure that OSE has, the company is working at the limit and it was not going to be able to deal with peak situations like the ones that occurred now”, he concluded.
OSE measures
The SBI reported last week that it will sanction power outages of water drinking water to those users who make excessive use of it, or use it for non-priority purposes. The service reopening fine will be 2 Readjustable Units (UR), some 3004.5 pesos, to the current value.
Prior to defining a cutoff, OSE personnel will go to the address in question and will warn the user in the first instance, who in case of recidivism in the improper use of the network, will see the supply interrupted. The state company considers that some areas of the country could experience lack of supplywhile at Montevideo they would have water reserves for about two months. In some localities of cannellonithe situation is more serious when having an estimate of water for about ten days.
Source: Ambito
