At a press conference, President Luis Lacalle Pou specified that it still has to rain in the metropolitan area to end the water emergency.
In the hope that the water crisis is coming to an end, from the increase in water reserves in Paso Severino and the considerable improvement in the quality of the supply, the president Luis Lacalle Pou Clarified that the battle against water shortages is not over and that, for this, it still has to rain.
The president was consulted at a press conference, after his arrival from Brussels where he participated in the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and the European Union (EU)on the water crisis. Faced with this, he did not give an encouraging answer, but rather assured that there is a long way to go.
“We are in a complex situation, you cannot claim victory. it has to rain. Today we have better records than we had a while ago. Luckily this is going to continue according to forecasts, but no, the battle is not over or close,” Lacalle Pou established.
In Paso Severino the news is good
Despite the president’s statements, the landscape begins to change for the country’s main drinking water reserve. According to the latest Presidency report on the water crisis, Severine Pass currently has 8,264,242 cubic meters of reserves in front of the 7,855,191 of the last part, representing a 5.2% increase in one day.
On the other hand, and in relation to the growth of reserves, the consumption of the population continues to grow with 510,689 cubic meters per day, in front of the 505,479 cubic meters of yesterday, obtaining a gradual increase of 1%.
In what has to do with water quality, chloride and sodium levels continue to drop. In the pumping line 4 that supplies the center of the capital of the country, the measurement of the daily average of chlorides reached 74mg/l and the 81mg/l of sodium. In the pumping line 5 that supplies water to the western zone of Montevideo and surroundings, the chlorides reached 71mg/l and sodium to 81mg/l. In turn, in the pump line 6 that supplies the east of the capital and its surroundings, the daily records of chlorides were 69mg/l and those of sodium 77mg/l.
Source: Ambito
