By Raul Martinez Montevideo, Aug 15 (EFE).- Intermittent rains and state-funded public works projects are helping ensure access to water amid Uruguay’s worst drought in recorded history, although more sustained downpours are still needed. “We can’t claim victory yet. It has to rain,” Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said in July after slightly higher water …
Water began being transferred from the San José River dam to the Aguas Corrientes area of the Santa Lucía River in a move to alleviate the drinking water supply to the Uruguayan capital, it was reported in Montevideo. The works carried out in record time are expected to result in lower salinity in the metropolitan area.
By Santiago Carbone Montevideo, Jul 12 (EFE).- Uruguay is enduring its most severe water crisis on record due to a prolonged drought that has left this capital’s main reservoir almost completely dry. Even though water levels at the Paso Severino reservoir have increased in recent days, it currently only has just over 1.5 million cubic …
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Paso Valdez, Uruguay (AFP) July 12, 2023 - Uruguay is frantically laying pipes and digging wells as it races to find fresh sources of precious H2O amid a record drought that has threatened to leave its capital without potable water.