World Water Day: I learned the value of drinking water

In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly decided that on March 22 each year, this day would be proclaimed World Water Day. A day to reflect on the vital role of water and promote improvements for the world's population and discuss how to manage water resources in the future.

Drink water in the world

2.1 million people live without drinking water at home. Worldwide, more than 700 children under the age of five die daily from diarrhea caused by unsafe water or poor sanitation. Women and girls are responsible for collecting water in eight out of ten households that lack water at home.

Approximately 159 million people are supplied with drinking water from surface water sources, such as ponds and streams.

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This year's message is "Do not leave anyone behind." It is an adaptation of the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: everyone should benefit from the progress of development.
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The value of drinking water

Drinking water: essential to improve the quality of life, even if it is always a service little valued by the communities. We have always badociated water access in cities with human ingenuity and today, when we open a tap, we do not feel the need to to look for it and we do not measure the enormous effort that this entails in terms of human, technical and economic resources. make drinking water so that it is available all day and every day of the year with us.

Although we see that "water is falling from the sky" and that there are many rivers, this water must be treated beforehand for its consumption and its cost increases for several reasons. All of this makes drinking water available in
Every house in the world has a cost that must inevitably be borne. This cost depends on the complexity needed to access water sources, transport and make them drinkable, increase
cost of electrical energy, etc.

With regard to this year's theme, "" Do not leave anyone out "of Samsa and, in conjunction with EPRAC, highlight the progress made in this regard, it is pointed out that there are 241 drinking water connections to Posadas and Garupá, called
"Public canillas" and 125 links in settlements considered "precarious buildings" that have free access to drinking water.

In addition, more than 19,800 users receive a subsidy or a special rate because of their socio-economic status or their inability to pay for the service. In recent years, the drinking water service has been accompanied by the strong growth of the population in the cities of Posadas and Garupá.

Together between the company and the government of the province of Misiones and the national government under the Belgrano plan. It should be noted that the investments made since the beginning of the concession have allowed
incorporate 110% more new users who already have access to drinking water. Also build 138% more kilometers of aqueducts and drinking water distribution networks. Also reach that 200% more than
users already have sewers available.

In this way, the growth and development of cities has been accompanied by large-scale works and the incorporation of technology into services. This progress represents an improvement in public health and health care.
environment for the entire community and future generations.

In the same way, Samsa collaborates with the municipal administrations of Posadas and Garupá, EPRAC, the secretariat of public works and services, EBY, IPRODHA, UEP, IMAS and cooperatives.
providers from within the province and other agencies related to sanitation. This link creates the synergy necessary to progress in the expansion and improvement of these essential services to the
community

Samsa also executes improvements on various fronts as part of the service investment master plan, the most important of which is the incorporation of works and technologies, with a center for modern telecontrol
service and developments that will automatically regulate the distribution of water.

All this ensures a better supply of drinking water to Posadas and Garupá.