The precipitations of the last hours have brought a breather to the volume of the flow, which grew for the seventh consecutive day.
The latest daily report from the Presidency on the water emergency situation that is hitting the metropolitan area showed that the rainfall in the last few hours helped the water reserves in the Severino Pass (Florida) will increase for the seventh consecutive day until reaching the 3.3% from its normal flow.
According to information from SBIToday, the population of Montevideo and its metropolitan area consumed 503,666 cubic meters of water and reserves were established at 2,225,331 cubic meters out of a total of 67 million cubic meters.
compared to yesterday, the volume of water increased by 6.12%or 128,295 cubic meters, and in all the pumping lines to the country’s capital values were registered below the maximum established by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) regarding chlorides (720 mg/l) and sodium (440 mg/l).
In the pumping line 4 that supplies the center of the capital of the country, the measurement of the daily average of chlorides reached 670 mg/l and 405 mg/l of sodium. In the pumping line 5 which supplies water to the western zone of Montevideo and surroundings, chlorides reached 637 mg/l and sodium 387 mg/l. In turn, in the pump line 6 which supplies the east of the capital and its surroundings, the daily records of chlorides were 648 mg/l and those of sodium were 393 mg/l.
Rains of 40 millimeters were forecast through Thursday
As reported by Telemundo, experts predicted that there could be a accumulated water of 40 millimeters in the Santa Lucía river basinwhere the most significant precipitation levels will occur this Wednesday.
Until this Wednesday morning, where it had rained the most was in the city of Dolores (Soriano)with a cumulative 55 millimeters, and another 37 millimeters were also recorded in Fray Bentos (Black River).
Source: Ambito
