Robert Bouvier reflected at the Sustainable Cities Forum on the lessons that the current water crisis will leave.
This Wednesday, within the framework of the Sustainable Cities Forum, the Minister of Atmosphere, Robert Bouvierreflected on the lessons that the current water crisis will leave the country and remarked that “if there is something that we are going to be very clear, is that in Uruguay the water is not infinitewhich I think is what we thought a while ago”.
For Bouvier, tackling the problem in this way will help the Ministry of the Environment and the National Water Directorate (dinagua) to “incorporate top-level technicians”, as well as “start working on crisis protocols”he pointed.
According to the minister, since the declaration of a water emergency in Montevideo and its metropolitan area, from the portfolio they have put “a lot of focus” on the water problem to monitor the behavior of the rains and how they run off.
In turn, Bouvier indicated that among the next challenges should be the creation of “an integral policy that includes groundwater, rainwater, and use in irrigation.” Regarding this, he said that his portfolio is working and by the end of the year they will present a concrete proposal.
Arazatí and Casupá are “complementary works” for Ambiente
For the minister, both the project for a water treatment plant in Arazati (San Jose) like the dam of Casupá (Florida) represent necessary and “complementary” works facing the future of natural resources in Uruguay.
“The projects are not antagonistic, quite the opposite”he assured, and said that “simply, the government decided that the priority is Arazatí to give more security to the system with an alternative line“, he slipped.
Bouvier emphasized that “the only good thing that the drought is going to leave” is that “we are becoming aware of the water issue, we are all talking about that issue and it seems to me that we are going to have more important support when it comes to having resources to work around the same, he concluded.
Source: Ambito
