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| Charcón has become the place where residents of San Antonio and Victoriano Lorenzo No. 2 come daily, in the absence of water-bathing and washing clothes and utensils. LA PRENSA / Gabriel Rodríguez 1494332 |
(prensa.com) The hope of the residents of the city of Panama, now Chilibre drinking water plant was working at 100% capacity, vanished. The high turbidity that persists in the Alajuela Lake has prevented, said yesterday the Minister for Canal Affairs Romulo Roux.
The water treatment plant currently produces only 138 million gallons of water a day, instead of the 180 for which it was designed.
By contrast, in the drinking water of Miraflores, which is supplied from Lake Gatun, the production is 95%, although the level of turbidity is 300 nephelometric units, two times more than in Chilibre.
Luz de Meneses, plant superintendent of Miraflores, said that daily cleaned settlers, whose processes are faster because it is a smaller plant.
Meanwhile, at the start of day 35 of the crisis, a decision announced by the Government shows that the final solution will take to get there: 500 000 cases of bottled water, a local market and other from Costa Rica, will be distributed among the population.
Meanwhile, thousands of people formed long lines to obtain supplies from tanker trucks, streams, probably contaminated, and the most diverse sources.