Monterey, NL. The government of New Lion took an extreme measure, because there will only be water for six hours, that is, from 4:00 in the morning to 10:00 in the morning every day, due to the scarce rains, informed Juan Ignacio Barragán, general director of Services of Water and Drainage of Monterrey, after a meeting of Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda, with the mayors of the Metropolitan Area.
“The reduction program (of supply) is suspended and is transformed into a general program for the entire Metropolitan Area and peripheral municipalities, with water supply from 4 in the morning to 10 in the morning.”
He said that it is an extreme measure which could vary if there is precipitation that allows the dams to be filled,” said the official. This cancels the Water for All Plan that divided the Metropolitan area in seven sectors, where cutting was carried out one day a week per sector.
“It is a complicated decision for the population, but at the same time the business chambers, non-governmental organizations, neighbors and mayors have asked us to find a scheme that gives them certainty,” he emphasized.
Activists such as Pedro Alejo Rodríguez, former independent candidate for the municipal presidency of Monterrey, commented on his social networks “today more than 35 colonies without water in different municipalities.
In context, on May 8, the director of Water and Drainage reported that the water pressure would be lowered to a minimum from 6 in the afternoon to 6 in the morning in the Metropolitan Area, until August, or sooner if it rains. enough and called it “recalibration of the Water Plan for All”.
In the week of March 14 to 20, the Water for All Program which consisted of one day a week one of seven sectors would run out of water one day.
The director of Water and Drainage assured that after the announcement of this Program, water consumption skyrocketed to more than 16,000 liters per second, due to the fact that the population began to buy water tanks and boats to store water. Optimum consumption is around 13,000 liters per second, however, as summer enters, when temperatures rise above 39 degrees, you tend to consume more water.
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