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(EFE) .- Three new brackish water desalination plants will start operating in the province of Santiago de Cuba to guarantee the supply of the population even in extreme drought situations, according to the press official.
treatment will join a similar facility, the largest of its kind in the country, already operating in the neighboring area of Boca de Cabañas, to create what will be a "desalination laboratory" dedicated to the management of the "de more and more frequent and intense "dry periods", published the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
The Boca de Cabañas desalination plant has a reverse osmosis system and the uniqueness of being the only one in the country directly related to providing the population
L & # 39; initiative is part of the short-term action plan designed by the authorities to cope with the foreseeable arrival of an intense drought like that affecting 71% of the Cuban territory until 39; last year, caused mainly by lack of rain.
For almost three years this phenomenon has lasted – considered the worst of its kind in the last 110 years on the island – nearly a million people have been affected with a system of Reverse osmosis and the peculiarity of being the only one in the country directly related to the supply of the population, the Boca de Cabañas desalination plant has processed more than half a year -million cubic meters of potable water at the rate of 50 liters per second, for the supply of the residential sector.
Next to this plant, a new facility is planned to serve the Antonio Maceo thermoelectric plant and seek to make this industry independent of the provincial supply network
Heavy rains since last September when the violent hurricane Irma devastated the island, helped reverse the worst drought of the last century, which for three years caused serious problems of water scarcity and losses in agriculture .
In addition to the installation of desalination plants, the government approved the installation of sewage treatment plants and sewage treatment plants. Shortage
In addition to the installation of desalination plants, the government approved the installation of sewage treatment plants and wastewater treatment to mitigate the effects of lack of & 39; water.
In addition, the country is implementing the national program since 2012 of water, which attempts to solve the losses in the conduction of the liquid, caused mainly by the poor condition of the pipes, and bet by its rational use in agriculture.
In Cuba 60% of the water is used in agricultural work 20% for consumption of the population, 5% for industry and the rest in other economic activities.
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