The minister of National defense, javier garcia, He affirmed that “there is a political campaign” through different international media that “intends to hurt the government, but hurts Uruguay”after the renowned American newspaper The New York Times address in a note the problem of the water emergency in Montevideo and the metropolitan area.
Through his Twitter account, the politician from National Party (PN) made it clear that he did not like the article published by the newspaper of NYwhich he described as “very petty”.
García maintained that there is no doubt that there is an orchestrated plan against the current government administration, and that the note from The New York Times is “another” attack against the Multicolored Coalition.
What does the note from The New York Times say?
The opinion column in the American newspaper was written by the Uruguayan journalist, William Garatand published last Friday, July 21.
In it, Garat maintains that for almost three months, “drought and mismanagement eroded the supply of drinking water” in Montevideo, since it came out of the taps with “a terribly salty taste” and smelling of chemical products.
The journalist went further and narrated his personal experience: “When we showered, we did it quickly and with the windows open, because the trihalomethane compounds in the steam can be carcinogenic”.
Garat, stressed that “at the height of the crisis” the levels of sodium and chlorides rose to three times what was allowed by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP). “In Uruguay, clean water is part of our national identity,” she said.
In turn, the journalist criticized the lack of investment in freshwater reservoirs, and their mismanagement in the Santa Lucia Riverin the context of “the most serious drought in the last 44 years”.
Source: Ambito
