The desalination plant, that would arrive from the American city of Houston, and would provide a solution to the high levels of salinity in the water, will take 4 more weeks since it does not enter any of the planes that the government of Uruguaythat is why they made the decision to bring her by boat, making her wait even longer.
The story with the desalination plant, managed by the Technological University of Uruguay (UTEC) it becomes more unusual every moment and its wait is longer and longer. According to the president of the National Administration of State Sanitary Works (OSE), Raúl Montero, the machine did not fit into any of the available planes the government had.
“It is mounted on a container with measures that made it impossible for it to be brought on the planes to which we had access. The plant is being loaded by ship and it will take about four weeks to arrive,” explained Montero.
On the other hand, he added that they plan to plant it in specific and strategic places, that is, near hospitals, schools or areas where there is a easy logistics “Regarding the loading of tanker trucks so that they could supply some strategic area”.
a matter of centimeters
A little over twenty days ago, Secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgadoconfirmed the bad news that the desalination plantwhich would provide immediate solutions to the lack of drinking water in the metropolitan area would arrive later because it did not enter the Hercules plane by 15 centimeters.
According to the Secretary of the Presidency, the first measures sent by the company indicated that the machinery would enter the plane. However, the company adjusted the measurements, causing the Hercules to be small. Given this, Delgado had assured that the machine would be in the country “In a few weeks”.
The keys to the desalination plant
This machine would help alleviate water scarcity by improving the quality of current drinking water – which is affected by the lack of reserves and which was solved with the increase in salinity – removing excess chloride and sodium.
The plant has a capacity of 150,000 literswhich would supply 150,000 people, and it could be useful to provide water to hospitals and sanatoriums, with trucks that transport the fluid to different parts of the country that need it. The idea of acquiring this machinery came from the Technological University (UTEC) that will provide the training and advice of the machinery.
The initial idea is to try a single plant to see how it works and if they are really useful for the situation you are experiencing. Uruguay. For this, the possibility of renting them is even being evaluated and, if they work, acquiring more than one plant.
Source: Ambito
