Chile announces emergency plan for possible water rationing in Santiago

Chili announced this Monday a water rationing plan for Santiago, the country’s capital, if necessary due to an extensive drought that has dragged on for more than a decade.

“We have had 12 years of drought, therefore there are many possibilities that we will have this type of situation (of rationing)”said the governor of Santiagowhen presenting the plan which establishes four stages depending on the emergency.

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The “Green Alert”the first, emphasizes the care of the Waterdissemination for savings and prioritizes the use of groundwater.

Then come the states of “Preventive Early Warning” and “Yellow”, which stipulate the reduction of air pressure. WaterMeanwhile he rationing from Water applies when the “Red Alert” is declared.

In the case of applying the cuts of Waterthese will be “rotating”, that is, one sector at a time, and with a maximum of 24 hours, according to the authorities.

The program covers 142,613 households that are supplied by the River Mapocho, which crosses the city from east to west, and another 1,545,000 who are supplied by the River Maipo, which feed the communes in the south of the city, where 7.1 million inhabitants live.

The plan would enter into force in the event that the authorities decree the rationinga scenario that depends on the eventual rains that fall in the winter but that President Gabriel Boric raised as possible Recently.

Source: Elcomercio

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