Water crisis continues in Uruguay despite July rains

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The Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) said on Wednesday that the water deficit in Uruguay remains despite the rains recorded in July. teleSUR

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00:00 an institute of meteorology in Umed stated on Wednesday that the water deficit remains

00:05 despite the rains recorded in July.

00:08 The institute affirmed that the droughts that have been affecting the country for almost

00:12 three months are likely to continue.

00:14 The drought brought to minimum levels Paso Severino Dam, the source of drinking water

00:19 for Montevideo.

00:21 According to Silvia Ribeiro, the Latin American director of the ETZ, the Action Group of Erosion,

00:26 Technology and Concentration, the government's measures are worsening the drought by handing

00:31 over part of the water purification to private companies, which will take water from wherever

00:36 it is most profitable for them, whether saline or contaminated.

00:40 Ribeiro also said that the public water system distributes water with chemical residues above

00:45 the permitted standards.

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