water and an uncertain future (Bahía Blanca)
The possibility of applying restrictions on the current water supply to users of Bahía Blanca and Punta Alta - mentioned in a chronicle of our edition of yesterday - open frame concern in both cities, attentive to the prospect of entering a period of scarcity , whose starting point lies in the failure of rains in recent years has placed a critical level at Paso de las Piedras dam , where it caters to almost 400 thousand people.
The official silence in the face of journalistic inquiries, has not only increased doubts about the immediate future since, for worse, we enter the period in which precipitation fell. While at the same time, significantly reduces consumption over the summer, it is clear that the mere mention of any restrictions called to make certain comments regarding the lack of solutions to a problem that has not arisen overnight morning.
several years, the same experts on the issue have been demanding the construction of a second aqueduct from Paso de las Piedras, in order to cover any shortcomings in the one that supplies both cities, conducted at the beginning of the decade of 70. However, all has not gone the realm of mere expressions of desire, while the number of inhabitants has grown and, consequently, the needs of a wider service.
It is even said at the time that if you build the second pipeline could supply 700,000 people, which would be covered successfully claim that might arise between now and many years. The fact of the persistent drought, which involves the mountain basin where the river originates Sauce Grande, has been severely complicate the picture, with a gradual decrease in the height of the dam, from the year 2004. It is recalled that 25 years ago, a ruptured pipeline was that users should bear about 48 hours without service.
A bill introduced in the city council by the mayor Aloma Sartor raises a number of fundamental questions about the issue, including whether ABSA has requested water emergency declaration, with the possible application of cuts in domestic distribution. Councillor's concerns deserve, of course, a specific and immediate clarification of government officials, so that the whole population of Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca know what to expect in the days ahead.
Beyond the essential content of the answers must come from the administration based in La Plata, it is clear that time has been missed without carrying solutions that serve to prevent these episodes. When it was built, the complex Paso de las Piedras became the largest public works project ever developed by the Buenos Aires government. However, subsequently, not carried out the second aqueduct or additional works were done while standing still intend to bring water from the Colorado River, an ambitious about technical and economic aspects of which remain doubts unquestionable solidity. 24/04/1909
SOURCE: THE NEW PROVINCE
The official silence in the face of journalistic inquiries, has not only increased doubts about the immediate future since, for worse, we enter the period in which precipitation fell. While at the same time, significantly reduces consumption over the summer, it is clear that the mere mention of any restrictions called to make certain comments regarding the lack of solutions to a problem that has not arisen overnight morning.
several years, the same experts on the issue have been demanding the construction of a second aqueduct from Paso de las Piedras, in order to cover any shortcomings in the one that supplies both cities, conducted at the beginning of the decade of 70. However, all has not gone the realm of mere expressions of desire, while the number of inhabitants has grown and, consequently, the needs of a wider service.
It is even said at the time that if you build the second pipeline could supply 700,000 people, which would be covered successfully claim that might arise between now and many years. The fact of the persistent drought, which involves the mountain basin where the river originates Sauce Grande, has been severely complicate the picture, with a gradual decrease in the height of the dam, from the year 2004. It is recalled that 25 years ago, a ruptured pipeline was that users should bear about 48 hours without service.
A bill introduced in the city council by the mayor Aloma Sartor raises a number of fundamental questions about the issue, including whether ABSA has requested water emergency declaration, with the possible application of cuts in domestic distribution. Councillor's concerns deserve, of course, a specific and immediate clarification of government officials, so that the whole population of Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca know what to expect in the days ahead.
Beyond the essential content of the answers must come from the administration based in La Plata, it is clear that time has been missed without carrying solutions that serve to prevent these episodes. When it was built, the complex Paso de las Piedras became the largest public works project ever developed by the Buenos Aires government. However, subsequently, not carried out the second aqueduct or additional works were done while standing still intend to bring water from the Colorado River, an ambitious about technical and economic aspects of which remain doubts unquestionable solidity. 24/04/1909
SOURCE: THE NEW PROVINCE
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