New plant to provide clean water to the 200K residents of thirsty Durango city

President Claudia Sheinbaum connected Saturday visited Durango’s caller Guadalupe Victoria h2o attraction works operation site. The works volition supply cleanable h2o to Durango metropolis successful the bluish Mexican authorities of Durango. The installation is acceptable to statesman operations connected March 25. 

Sheinbaum was chiefly successful Durango to motorboat the Mujeres Bienestar (Womens’ Well-Being) pension programme for women betwixt ages 60 and 64. During her visit, she announced caller programs and investments for the authorities successful h2o and roads and besides a programme to crook Durango into 1 of Mexico’s large grower of beans, arsenic portion of a nutrient self-sufficiency inaugural for the country. 

Sheinbaum toured the works connected Saturday, portion successful Durango to motorboat the Mujeres Bienestar programme successful the authorities and denote different national programs benefitting residents. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

“We visited the operation tract of the Guadalupe Victoria h2o attraction plant, which volition supply prime h2o to the metropolis of Durango. We announced that this twelvemonth operation volition statesman connected the El Tunal II dam to warrant h2o of prime and quantity for the region,” Sheinbaum wrote connected the X societal media site.  

The “Healthy Water for La Laguna” programme was launched by erstwhile Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador successful a bid to present cleanable water, escaped of contaminants specified arsenic fluoride and arsenic, to radical surviving successful the Durango and Coahuila states. La Laguna is simply a metropolitan portion including the cities of Francisco I. Madero, Matamoros and Torreón successful Coahuila and the cities of Gómez Palacios and Lerdo successful Durango.

The programme has been rolled retired successful 4 municipalities successful Durango to day – Mapimí, Tlahualilo, Lerdo and Gómez Palacio, with much to travel successful 2025.

The h2o attraction works has “a precise innovative technology, developed by [The National Water Commission] Conagua itself, which volition let the h2o that comes from the Guadalupe Victoria dam to walk done this h2o attraction works and to scope the metropolis of Durango,” said Sheinbaum successful a video explaining the project. 

This volition besides let “the wells that are presently contaminated, chiefly by fluoride, to halt being utilized and for determination to beryllium amended prime h2o and much water” for that city, stated Sheinbaum. 

The manager of Conagua Efraín Morales and Durango’s politician Esteban Villegas accompanied the president astatine the Guadalupe Victoria site.

A Durango pistillate displays her caller paper for the Mujeres Bienestar program, which gives women conscionable beneath Mexico’s retiremement property of 64 entree to a pension.

During the visit, Morales said helium expects the h2o attraction works to proviso implicit 200,000 inhabitants successful Durango City with cleanable water. The programme supports Sheinbaum’s government’s purpose to amended entree to water, helium said. 

The national authorities has earmarked implicit 7.3 cardinal pesos to amended Durango’s h2o infrastructure during Sheinbaum’s six-year term. It volition collaborate with the authorities authorities to transportation retired works successful the 39 municipalities, prioritizing entree to drinking h2o and flood prevention.

Morales stressed that 76% of Mexico’s h2o is presently destined for the cultivation sector. The authorities is besides investing successful an irrigation exertion programme aimed astatine producing much nutrient with little water. 

The Tunal II Dam 

In summation to the Guadalupe Victoria facility, Sheinbaum and Morales discussed the improvement of the El Tunal II dam, which is portion of the 2025 National Water Plan.

The dam volition beryllium built implicit 3 years and is expected to proviso Durango with drinking h2o for the adjacent 50 years. 

The authorities volition put an estimated 4 cardinal pesos successful the project, which is expected to assistance bolster Durango’s economy. 

With reports from La Jornada, Por Esto!, El Siglo de Durango and POSTA