The union of the state company establishes that the water crisis showed that the situation with its collaborators has reached a limit.
In the context of an improvement in the position of the water crisis, accompanied by a drop in salinity due to recent rains, the staff of the National Administration of State Sanitary Works (OSE) establishes that the state company has reached a Limited due to lack of staff.
This Sunday the Federation of Officials of OSE (FFOSE) He denounced, through a statement, that the situation of OSE, regarding the lack of personnel, “has reached a limit” and that is why it is declared in conflict. From the union they established that “the water crisis has shown that the OSE is totally disarmed, that the lack of personnel is critical”.
On the other hand, they establish that for years they have carried out a “consistent complaint regarding the lack of personnel in OSE and the consequences it has when providing the drinking water and sanitation service.” That is why they stressed that they have “no choice” but to demonstrate that, if the slightest measure is taken, as not doing homework after hours or on a weekendthe impact on OSE will show that their jobs are irreplaceable and that more staff is needed.
In this sense, they did not miss an opportunity to attack the OSE board of directors and accuse it of carrying out “a media circus” to cover up their mismanagement. “Faced with a board of directors that not only refuses to listen, but in the midst of the worst water crisis, prefers the media circus and the smoke to cover his bad management, kidding the people who pay the consequences and receive salt water. They attack us because We were the first to alert the population about the situation,” the statement denounced.
Improves salinity
The union’s complaint occurs in the framework of an improvement in the quality of the water where this Saturday they showed sodium and chloride levels by below 100mg/l, something that had not happened since the beginning of the water emergency, according to the latest report Presidency about the supply in Montevideo and the metropolitan area of Uruguay.
According to the report, the salinity of the water was below 100 in all the pumping lines, far from the 720 mg/l of chloride and 440 mg/l of sodium authorized by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP)within the framework of the water crisis.
In the pumping line 4 that supplies the center of the capital of the country, the measurement of the daily average of chlorides reached 85mg/l and the 84mg/l of sodium. In the pumping line 5 that supplies water to the western zone of Montevideo and surroundings, the chlorides reached 77mg/l and sodium to 80mg/l. In turn, in the pump line 6 that supplies the east of the capital and its surroundings, the daily records of chlorides were 77mg/l and those of sodium 80mg/l.
The increase in the level of chemical compounds had been authorized in early May by the MSP, which confirmed that the measure exceptional requested by OSE did not constitute “a health problem”.
Source: Ambito
