The state-owned company will wait for the end of the judicial recess to speak out against the precautionary measure ordered by Judge Alejandro Recarey.
OSE will file next week the appeal against the ruling Arazati project ordered by the judge Alejandro Recarey, which provides for the suspension of works for the construction of a water treatment plant, due to the halting of the signing of the contract with the consortium Waters of Montevideo.
He Environment Minister Robert Bouvier He confirmed that the state-owned company will go to court “after the judicial recess”, while warning that his department continues to advance “environmental studies”, given the possibility that it may generate dozens of impacts.
In turn, according to Telenoche, Bouvier aims to “focus and be as broad as possible” in the project of the Santa Lucia River Basin, which seeks to strengthen the early warning system in the face of extreme weather events.
Two weeks ago, Judge Recarey agreed to the arguments of the National Commission for the Defense of Water and Life and the grouping Tucu-Tucu, admitting a precautionary measure of “no innovation”, which implies that the works are stopped.
The possibility of “a partial privatization process”
In his ruling, Recarey considered that there are “grounds to assume that we may be facing a process of partial privatization of the public supply of drinking water”, suggesting that the project that the government is promoting as “fundamental” to prevent the effects of a new drought would violate Article 47 of the Constitution.
The text of the Magna Carta establishes that “it will be the private sector that designs, builds and maintains the raw water intake infrastructure of the Silver river”, including “its initial analysis, its purification, and finally its transfer to Melilla (in Montevideo)”.
For Recarey there are “serious indications that the option could be to serve the population of the metropolitan area of lower quality water which I could enjoy (from other, cleaner sources)”.
Source: Ambito
