Uruguay Live your worst drought Within 70 years, experts have declared that if it does not rain heavily in the next few hours, the water reserves will run out in less than three weeks. This alarming situation started a few months ago but the lack of rain has exacerbated the problem and the next few days are very important to see what happens.
In principle, the local executive ordered the use of water from the Río de la Plata and mixed it with sweet liquids to clean it and thus alleviate the situation, but this measure provoked various protests.
The first rains will arrive on Wednesday or Thursday, which may ease the situation, but experts stress that a large amount of rain is needed to cope with the situation. “In crises we remember what we need,” said Louis Lacalle Beaux, president UruguayBy participating in the opening of a rations factory in the Flores Rural Union.
It was this expression at the beginning of June where he noted that the state company Obras Sanitarias del Estado (OSE) was carrying out “emergency works to dam fresh water” and insisted that “the water is guaranteed, what has to be measured is the quality”.
According to the latest estimates of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), the water deficit caused losses in the productive sector amounting to $1.8 billion. In May, the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) announced that drought What are you facing Uruguay For three years “unprecedented” and the worst since the beginning of the 20th century, when this record began in the South American country.
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