Raúl Montero believes that, after the experience of drought, an alternative source of drinking water is very necessary in Uruguay.
He president of OSE, Raul Monteronoted that the Neptune project (better known as Arazatí project) is “fundamental” for the country, and that, after the experience of the historic drought last year, it became clear that Uruguay need an alternative source of drinking water.
This Tuesday, the leader told Subrayado that the legal teams of SBIof the Ministry of Environment (MA) and of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) They are working on appealing the ruling of the judge Alejandro Recareywhich orders the state company not to sign the contract with the consortium waters of Montevideo, since it considered that there are bases to “suppose” a partial privatization process in the future supply of drinking water for the metropolitan area.
“For us, the Arazatí project is very important and fundamental,” Montero emphasized and added: “What happened last year and what also happened in March of this year indicate that we need an alternative source of drinking water.”
Montero recalled that throughout last year, SBI was on the verge of running out of fresh water to purify and that in March of this year, it was “within centimeters” of the plant Running Waters would be out of service.
OSE aims to ensure the supply of drinking water to the metropolitan area
Likewise, the president of SBI He stressed that this type of event “revalues” the fact of having an alternative water treatment plant, which allows establishing “a basic amount of water” for the more than 1.5 million inhabitants of the metropolitan area.
“Convinced of the importance of the project, confident in the laws of our country, we are going to face this situation,” he said. Huntsman, who will not advance the details of the appeal. “It is the first instance, therefore, the resolution is not final, we have an appeal instance. We are going to take advantage of it,” he concluded in this regard.
Source: Ambito
