Monterrey, NL. The dams that supply water to the Monterrey metropolitan area have dried up due to lack of rain: Cerro Prieto is at 9.83% full, La Boca at 24.51% and El Cuchillo at 53.98%, according to Conagua. To fix the scarcity of these side branches, apply to pop-up fontssuch as shallow wells, to avoid a partial shortage, stated Juan Ignacio Barragán Villarreal, director of water and drainage services of Monterrey.
Barragán explained in the Nuevos Cambios program of the local television station Multimedios that there is currently a partial drought that is affecting the prest of Cerro Prieto and La Bocalocated in the citrus zone, where there has been little rainfall in the last six years, which was less than consumption and evaporation.
“With (that capacity) if we do not have rain in the coming months, the water of Cerro Prieto can last us at most 4 to 5 months, and Boca probably a month and a half to two months; it will change if there is heavy rainfall, ”he warned.
The emerging sources, he explained, are the shallow wells, some started in the previous administration and are in the Macroplaza of Monterrey. “Other boreholes drilled in the 1980s and 1990s are 30 additional boreholes and we incorporate wells borrowed from companies.”
In addition, there are wells in the Huasteca area, as well as in the municipality of Mina and in the tunnels of Santiago, he added.
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During the program, Benjamín Limón Rodríguez, professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), warned that “there is a water stress It is important that this is due to the recharging of aquifers and it is necessary to prepare for the future so that society becomes aware of climate change that will cause longer droughts, with strong and short rainfall in many localized areas.
For example, in the municipality of Guadalupe and in Monterrey in the Mitras environment, “it’s water that is not used, we have to prepare ourselves with vigorous action, understanding that we are going to live with less water,” the UANL professor said.
In turn, local deputy Waldo Fernández González, of Morena, said he was concerned that the state government would say there would be no water cuts, as consumers believe he should be warned to reduce their consumption of the essential fluid.
Director of Monterrey Water and Drainage He mentioned that 15% of drinking water is wasted in leaks, and 6% of this is brought down to homes. On the other hand, there is “water huachicoleo that causes leaks”, in these cases it is necessary to work with the municipality and the Public Power because it is a risk area, as they stone the semi-state workers who come to close the leaks, Barragan Villarreal said.
According to data from the Drought Monitor Report of With water published on January 20, in the last six months, only the municipalities Ciénega de Flores, Doctor González, Mier and Noriega appear without drought, the others, including the metropolitan, have an area with an intensity of drought, abnormally dry (D0 ).
In this report, the municipalities are cited with at least 40% of the territory affected by some drought condition: of abnormal drought (D0), moderate drought (DI), severe drought (D2) and extreme drought (D3).
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