Between the rainfall and the progress of the works, the situation is normalizing in Montevideo and surroundings, they observe from OSE.
The reserves of the dam Severine Pass increased by a third in a single day thanks to the rains registered in the last hours and the water crisis begins to cease to be a latent concern for Montevideo and the metropolitan area of Uruguay.
After going through critical moments, with a strong increase in the salinity of the water that supplies SBI, the water emergency seems to be coming to an end. It is that, in addition to the level of rainfall, works such as the one that allows the transfer of water from the river were added to the fight against the crisis Saint Joseph to him St. Lucia.
Specifically, the impact of the rains was felt in Severino Pass, where the reserves went from 10,946,071 cubic meters to 14,649,518 cubic meters between yesterday and today, which represents an increase of 33.83% in 24 hours. In fact, the rainfall benefited the basin of the St. Lucia, with an average of 66.7 millimeters on average.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) I authorize SBI to continue with the high maximum allowable chloride and sodium levels of 720 and 440 milligrams, respectively, at least until the end of the water emergency. It is worth noting that today the values were between 152 and 160 in the case of sodium and between 209 and 223 in chlorides.
The works to combat the water crisis begin to be noticed
As part of the government’s approach to addressing the water Crisis, actions began to multiply to contribute to an improvement in the situation. It is along these lines that the transfer of fresh water from the river began last week Saint Joseph to him St. Lucia, within the framework of a work that was completed in just over a month.
The work, which is added to the loan for 60 million dollars that will be granted fonplata and the arrival of the desalination plant of UTEC from USA, It will provide about 200,000 cubic meters per day of raw fresh water.
This flow represents one third of the annual average daily flow of the power plant. running waters, insured from SBI, at the same time that they considered the work as “a Severine Pass additional” to guarantee the quality of water in the metropolitan area of the country.
Source: Ambito
