the mayor of cannelloni, Yamandu Orsipointed out that The Presidency should pay “more attention” to the help offered by Argentina to alleviate the consequences of the water emergency in the metropolitan area, in reference to the refusal to accept the mobile water treatment plant and the tanker that were made available from the neighboring country.
In turn, for the mayor of the Canary Islands, who should ultimately determine this type of decision is the National Emergency System (Sinae)As the President himself had put forward, Luis Lacalle Pouin the last meeting with the president of the Broad Front (FA), Fernando Pereira.
“One of the proposals that Argentina made is a water treatment plant that also packages,” Orsi said at a press conference, and insisted again that it should be the Sinae “the one that decides when we use those resources”.
“I spoke with an ambassador and he told me that the national government was grateful and that, at the moment it deems necessary, it will make use of that support,” however, he slipped that “the chancelleries have a function and, in this case, also the Sinae”.
On the other hand, Orsi hinted that the possible rejection of aid by Lacalle Pou may be due to a personal antipathy with his Argentine counterpart. Alberto Fernandezand commented that “many people” are “suspicious about the affinity or lack of affinity between the presidents”. However, the departmental head tried to put cold cloths and clarified: “I think that in this case you have to take it easy.”
Lacalle Pou chose to monitor “how the situation evolves”
Argentina offered help to Uruguay to face the water crisis. However, President Luis Lacalle Pou did not accept it, for now. From the government, although the offer was appreciated and they keep in touch with the Argentine authorities, the response was that they prefer to see “how the situation evolves”.
The first conversations on the subject took place in Iguazú, in the Argentine province of Missionswhere the LXII Mercosur Summitand where Alberto Fernández and Lacalle Pou exchanged comments on the worst drought of the century in Uruguayan territory.
According to the formal offer document from Argentina, a mobile water treatment plant with a production capacity of 1,700 half-liter sachets per hour is made available, as well as the displacement of an officer and three non-commissioned officers to operate the machinery.
Likewise, the possibility of sending an Argentine Navy tanker with more than 200 tons of water capacity provided by Argentine Water and Sanitation SA (AySA). Bottled or tank water could also be added to this, but it would be subject to container availability that has not yet been confirmed.
Source: Ambito