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The Province seeks financing from the IDB. Two complicated situations were overcome by the project to carry out the improvement works on the Vipos aqueduct. On the one hand, the initiative was in a nebulous state after the president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, had questioned the financing of a package of projects in the face of the political and economic situation in Argentina. . On the other hand, and when the situation between the country and the agency was clarified, the water works in the province had to pass the litmus test for the IDB to give its no objection, that is, that it has not formulated observations so that the undertaking is considered subject to credit. In the last meeting in Buenos Aires, the Chief of Staff of the Nation, Juan Manzur, and the Deputy Governor in office of the Executive Branch, Osvaldo Jaldo, announced that the project was free. Manzur told LA GACETA that on September 14 the board of directors of the Inter-American Development Bank will meet and it is likely that the $12 billion financing will be approved at that meeting. Thus, as Jaldo also anticipated, the works would start at the end of the year, after calling for public bidding (the specifications have already been submitted for analysis) and adjudication. The Vipos aqueduct will double the water production capacity What does the work consist of? The aqueduct has a length of about 50 kilometers through which the water will pass to supply around 250,000 people living from the south of Trancas to the northwestern area of ??San Miguel de Tucumán. It will have a fluid treatment and potabilization plant, through underground collection. The regional head of the Norte Grande Delegation of the National Entity for Water and Sanitation Works (Enohsa), Gerónimo Vargas Aignasse, explained to LA GACETA that the work, which will require an execution period of two years, will allow the aqueduct to double its production capacity. from 2,000 to 4,000 cubic meters per hour. “The new work will not only allow combating the relative deficit of water supply in the area of ??influence, but also greater predictability of infrastructure for urban development, for example, from the north of the Tafí Viejo department or the south of the Trancas department. Likewise, the drinking water system of San Miguel de Tucumán will no longer depend so much on the production of El Cadillal. Vargas Aignasse also affirmed that the Vipos aqueduct will give some rest to the 90 water wells (10 are in the drilling stage), since the system will have a little more than 10,000 cubic meters of drinking water available with various sources of supply and that will allow the capitals aquifer to be recovered. The riverbed will not be affected, the regional official clarified. Vargas Aignasse also affirmed that the Vipos aqueduct will give some rest to the 90 water wells (10 are in the drilling stage), since the system will have a little more than 10,000 cubic meters of drinking water available with various sources of supply and that will allow the capitals aquifer to be recovered. The riverbed will not be affected, the regional official clarified. Vargas Aignasse also affirmed that the Vipos aqueduct will give some rest to the 90 water wells (10 are in the drilling stage), since the system will have a little more than 10,000 cubic meters of drinking water available with various sources of supply and that will allow the capitals aquifer to be recovered. The riverbed will not be affected, the regional official clarified. |
