President Luis Lacalle Pou said at a press conference that “the water supply is guaranteed” for the population.
President Luis Lacalle Pou reported at a press conference that the government decreed the water emergency for Montevideo and the metropolitan area. However, the head of state maintained that “the water supply is guaranteed” and “it will not cut”.
Likewise, the president confirmed that tomorrow the work of the reservoir begins in the san jose river (crosses the departments of Flowers and Saint Joseph), for a figure close to 20 million dollars and with materials from the Argentina and Brazil, seeking to have a new water source for the capital. The reservoir would be ready within a period of at least 12 days.
Regarding the supply, the chief indicated that in the next few days SBI will be reporting everything related to water quality, since there could be quality losses, prioritizing continuing with a normal flow of service.
Lacalle Pou, explained that all the new measures taken by the government are based on a scenario of non-existence of rain within the next few weeks, and defended his government’s management by recalling that the tender for the Arazati Projecta work that according to understands, “put an end to the coming troubles“.
The government will exempt bottled water from taxes
On the other hand, Lacalle Pou announced that after the declaration of a water emergency, which enables the government to have “faster and simpler” legal processes, you will be exempting from taxes on bottled water from a bill that will be sent to the Parliament.
The hierarch supposes that from this governmental determination the price of bottled water should trend downward so “sensitive“. Along the same lines, he announced that the free supply of two liters of water per day was extended to beneficiaries of the Ministry of Social Development (you measure), which in the first instance was scheduled to run until July.
Finally, the president stated that the problem of bottled water shortages in small commercial areas is due more to a packaging problem that of water supply, since “consumption doubled”, and “in some peaks it multiplied by 5”.
Source: Ambito
