The mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, spoke of “lack of direction” and predicted that the work will be “a problem for Uruguay.”
leaders of the Forehead Broad came out to question the Arazati project considering that “it is quite expensive” and even raising doubts about the usefulness of the initiative, whose work was recently awarded by SBI to the consortium Montevideo waters.
In the petition against the construction of the water treatment plant in Saint Joseph coincided the Mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, who considered that “it is quite expensive” and described it as “a problem”, similar to the opinion of the Senator Mario Bergara, who pointed out: “We do not see that it is a good project.”
At a press conference, Cosse He pointed out that “it is quite expensive” and said that “even if it is 10 dollars I think it is a problem for the Uruguay”. Elaborating on her position, she argued: “I am not convinced that it is useful because the salinity tests that were done in the Silver river at the height of where the shot is going to be, they went wrong”.
In her criticism, the mayor of Montevideo He pointed out that “since it is not a desalination plant, but a water treatment plant, what they themselves propose is to build a kind of freshwater reservoir, but there is a lack of data for that.”
Along these lines, he asked himself: “How many days of salt water can scientifically be expected to exist? What continuity is there between those days to know what the dimension of that reservoir should be? “These are details of the project that I think need to be fine-tuned. It is one more symptom of the lack of direction, “he defined.
Bergara questioned the “higher cost” and spoke of “doubts”
For his part, bergara expressed his objections to the Arazati project. “We do not see that it is a good project,” he said in dialogue with Underlined about the vision of the broad front and considered that “it is not even being what had been promised.”
The senator maintained that “in terms of private initiative he has his doubts, because there are no major innovations either, which is somewhat the nature of the private initiative mechanism” and questioned the cost overruns: “The government anticipated a certain cost and now what is just approved implies a much higher cost”.
By imagining an eventual government of the FA, He anticipated that “there will be a good part of the work already advanced”, for which reason he asked for restraint: “You have to stop at that moment to see how the contractual circumstances and effective construction of the infrastructure are.” However, he clarified: “Obviously, we do not like the path that the government chose and it will be expensive.”
Source: Ambito
