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The PIT-CNT will mobilize on May 24 in defense of water

The PIT-CNT will mobilize on May 24 in defense of water

The labor center PIT-CNT will make agreat mobilization” in “water defense” the next Wednesday May 24 at 5:30 p.m.as defined by his Representative Board this Tuesday. The measure was taken as a reaction to the handling of the national authorities regarding the management of the shortage of drinking water reserves. Meanwhile, the Executive Power meets today to think about more measures.

The national government, through the National Administration of State Sanitary Works (OSE)decided to increase the salinity levels in the water for the second time at the beginning of May to make the reserves last even longer within the framework of the drought that whips the Uruguay.

However, and beyond the discussions regarding the impact on health that this decision may or may not have, in the last hours it was learned that the Metropolitan area You only have guaranteed water for the next 18 days, in case it doesn’t rain.

The PIT-CNT mobilization has a date and time, although it still its conditions and place were not defined where it will be done This Monday, the union central had advanced its intentions to make the call against the state of emergency that exists due to the water problem.

At yesterday’s press conference, its president Marcelo Abdala He stressed the importance of “knowing the truth” and stressed “the veracity of how the opinion is developed by the person responsible for this, which is the Executive Power, for the correct management of the entire population.”

Right there, the leader Frederick Kreimerman He blamed the Executive Branch for managing a “total improvisation” and, like Abdala, he asked for clear information and explanations about what will happen when the metropolitan area runs out of fresh water. “The situation is serious and the government is obliged to inform the country of what is happening,” Kreimerman claimed.

The government met today to think about more measures

The government decided to meet with representatives of the Ministry of Environment, Social Development and Public Health to determine possible measures to deal with it, after holding a meeting without any representative of the presidency yesterday.

From 4:00 p.m., the secretary of the presidency, Alvaro Delgadomet with the Minister of Environment, Robert Bouvier, that of Social Development, martin motto and the Minister of Public Health, Karina Rando. The meeting was also attended by representatives of State organizations related to the conflict such as the National Administration of State Sanitary Works (OSE) and the National Emergency System (Sinae).

Subsequently, it was scheduled that they receive representatives of the Congress of Mayors, who were present on behalf of the departments affected by the water crisis.

Source: Ambito

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