The government presented the million-dollar plan to universalize the service throughout the country, with an impact on 150,000 people.
The government announced that, in an extraordinary session, the board of directors SBI approved the specifications and the call for bids to universalize sanitation in the interior of the country, a plan of plays which will cover some 61 locations throughout the national territory, with a direct impact on some 150,000 people.
Last night, the Secretary of the Presidency and presidential candidate for the National Party (PN), Álvaro Delgadoannounced in a press conference from the Executive Tower that the plan simultaneous works Throughout the country it will reach around 57,200 homes, allowing the interior to go from 48% sanitation coverage to 70%.
The envelopes with the proposals will be opened during the first half of February, and it is expected that the plays, which will run for more than a year, will begin between March and April of next year. In turn, work will be carried out simultaneously in all the locations involved and some 2,500 direct jobs will be created, according to Delgado.
How much will the plan to universalize sanitation in the interior cost?
The plays will involve a total investment of 349 million dollars for the State, from three sources of financing: the own resources of SBIa subsidy of up to 30 million dollars per year that will be provided by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the loan of a multilateral credit organization (Fonplata – Development Bank).
He works plan It involves the installation of some 812 kilometers of sanitary sewage pipes and networks, in addition to the construction of some 48 wastewater treatment plants in different places, including the towns of Dolores and Mercedes, in SorianoMercedes being the only departmental capital that does not have a plant of these characteristics.
Source: Ambito
