In the midst of the alert National Water Comission due to the risk of drying out the Cerro Prieto Dam, Water and sewer system It is extracting an average of 3,150 liters per second, more than double the 1,500 recommended by the federal agency.
And, although Juan Ignacio Barragán, director of AyD, admitted yesterday that more is extracted from the dam in Linares, he pointed out that they do not plan to schedule cuts in the service, as requested by the Conagua on Monday, ensuring that the pressure regulation is already applied from last year.
“Our forecast was 2,500 (liters per second of extraction),” said Barragán.
“We are a little bit up because people are consuming more water than expected.
“Now, it must be said that the population continues to growand population growth also represents a challenge,” he added, “but we do need to ask the population that we all do our part.”
Luis Carlos Alatorre, regional director of the With waterHe said in an interview that since November they have recommended AyD to reduce extraction to 1,500 liters per second in Cerro Prieto and to 800 liters per second in La Boca .
“If we continue the rate of extraction that we currently follow (in Cerro Prieto),” warned Alatorre, “our analyzes say that this Water could hold out until March or the beginning of April, when the intake works would no longer have capacity to draw water and we would have to install the pumping equipment that was there (last year)”.
Based on official records, EL NORTE carried out an exercise to calculate the average extraction from the dam between January 1 and yesterday, January 24.
The result was an average extraction of 3,150 liters per second.
There were even days when it was 3,800 liters per second, such as January 1 and 23, according to Conagua records.
Last year, during the water crisis and before Cerro Prieto dried up, 2,000 liters were extracted per second and it was at 10 percent of its capacity.
Yesterday it was 17 percent full.
In the case of MouthAyD has maintained a moderate extraction, according to the request of the Conagua.
Last Friday, Barragán said that the goal for March and April will be to reduce extraction in Cerro Prieto to between 1,800 and 2,000 liters per second.
The Town It is currently consuming 14,000 liters per second of water, of which dams contribute 62.5 percent and underground sources 37.5 percent, he said.
The ideal consumption would be 12 thousand liters per second, while in summer it shoots up to 16 thousand liters per second.
Barragán admitted that the gauging of deep wells is not yielding the expected volumesalthough they barely have four measurements.
“The dams are going down, but the aquifers are also going down,” he warned, “that’s why we need people to help us, to do their part by reducing their consumption.”
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