The Latin American Association for Desalination and Water Reuse (Aladyr) expressed in a statement that the situation of water crisis that cross Montevideo and the metropolitan area It was avoidable since the Uruguayan State had taken the appropriate precautions for a long time.
For Aladyr’s representatives, the current water problem in the capital of the Uruguaywhich according to the president himself Luis Lacalle Pou “is rapidly becoming an emergency“It is not the total responsibility of the current government administration, but it is a structural problem that the country is dragging.
From Aladyr they also maintain that The problem that Montevideo suffers today could be replicated in other capitals of the regionTherefore, national governments should implement different mechanisms to adapt to the consequences of climate change.
The critical moment that the water reserves are going through in the Severine Pass (Florida) led the government to make the decision to hold an enlarged cabinet meeting today which, in addition to the ministries themselves, includes officials from state agencies and authorities from SBI.
Last week, OSE reported that the water reserves in Paso Severino are at less than 5.66% of the total capacity, with a volume of 3.79 million cubic meters out of a total of 67 million cubic meters. According to the entity, the current situation of the reservoir continues to be “very critical“.
Aladyr believes that the water problems in Uruguay “were foreseeable”
From Aladyr they maintain that, based on the reports of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC), it could already be verified that the pattern of droughts had been intensifying throughout the regionyear after year, with its foreseeable consequences.
Angelica Riveradirector of Aladyr, assures that “water should be a priority” by governments, and that “lack of planning, governance and leadership are key factors in this crisis” that crosses the Uruguay.
In turn, he criticized the combination of fresh water and salt water that the government authorized to supply to deal with the shortage of water reserves, raising the levels of sodium in the fluid.
“The desalination of seawater and brackish wells,” as well as “the reuse of treated wastewater are no longer alternatives and have become unavoidable solutions to the ravages of climate change,” he remarked.
Source: Ambito
