President Luis Lacalle Por spoke about the current situation in Uruguay and assured that it “quickly became an emergency.”
At a press conference, the President Luis Lacalle Pou announced that a meeting will take place this Monday in executive tower with authorities and politicians related to the drought and the water crisis to anticipate the following measures in a situation that worries the Uruguay.
Within the framework of the presentation of the work of art that intends to remodel the bronze eagle sculpture carried by the Graf Spee, the president assured that this Monday’s meeting will be attended by the Secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado, of representatives of the ministries of Defense, Development, Economy and Financeand Atmosphere, as well as the Office of Planning and Budget (OPP) and of the National Administration of State Sanitary Works (OSE).
The reason for the meeting will be to “evaluate immediate measures as well as medium-term ones such as the Arazati projectwhich the government is already working on,” explained the president, who assured that the water crisis that is plaguing Uruguay “it is rapidly becoming an emergency”.
“Our ally, the one who solves the problem, is the rain. And unfortunately no water has fallen,” said the president this Sunday when announcing more measures for the water crisis. According to the president, the lack of rain “causes a large part of the population to be left without water of the quality we had before.”
Lacalle Pou remarked that the Ministry of Economy will have to provide more resources for the crisis. “It was summoned to Ministry of Economy, because here there will be an economic expenditure in this regard. Also to Ministry of Environment Yet the SBIto the OPPto the Ministry of Defence and to MEASURES to assist those who need it most”, explained the president.
Severino Pass in critical condition
The announcement comes at an extremely critical moment in which the dam of Severine Pass continues at record low levels, with less than 5.66% of its total capacity, according to the latest OSE report, when on June 9 it had 6.5%. Currently, the volume of the reservoir is 3.79 million cubic meters — the total is 67 million cubic meters.
“The situation continues to be very critical,” OSE stated in the report. Since May 26, the basin levels St. Lucia they remain between 6% and 7% of their capacity thanks to the intermittent rains which, although not enough to reverse the situation, extended the possibility of continuing to supply the population for a few days. However, in recent days, Paso Severino once again hit a record low.
Source: Ambito
