The state company maintained the request to the Ministry of Public Health, which it will accept, despite the positive impact of the rains on the reserves.
He Ministry of Public Health (MSP) will authorize the National Administration of State Sanitary Works (OSE) to maintain the extension of the maximum levels of chloride and sodium in the supply to the metropolitan area of Uruguay until the end of the water emergency caused by the water crisis who lived in this part of the country.
SBI had made the request on August 9, with the aim of extending the exception that allows the salinity levels allowed to be increased above the maximum normally allowed in the drinking water supplied to the population through the public network, due to the extraordinary situation that lived Montevideo and the surrounding towns in the face of extreme drought.
In this way, the state company was able to supply the population with the few fresh water reserves that remained in the river basin. Santa Lucia Rivermixed with the salt water of the Silver riverexceeding the normally permitted levels of 720 milligrams of chloride and 440 milligrams of sodium per liter.
Although the intense rains of the last few days allowed the recovery of a significant level of reserves in the reservoir of Severino Pass, from SBI They understand that the water crisis is not yet a matter of the past, which is why they maintained the request to the MSP, and it will authorize the extension of the corresponding exception, as confirmed by Telemundo.
Paso Severino reserves grew by a third in one day
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.
Source: Ambito
