Lack of water threatens population of the Central Valley.

The inhabitants consume more liquid of the one than she arrives at the water-bearing mantles. Senara proposes to place measurers in 5,198 existing wells in the zone.

Pablo Fonseca Q.
pfonseca@nacion.com

The inhabitants of the Central Valley could undergo faltantes of water within eight years.

A study of the National Service of Suterráneas Waters, Irrigation and Draining (Senara) revealed that a deficit between the water consumption and the capacity of charge of the water-bearing mantles Barva and Colima exists.

This report details that the charge of the water-bearing ones is of 9,720 liters per second whereas the extraction of wells (legal and illegal) reaches the 9,870 liters per second.

Bernal Coto, manager of Senara, assured that the situation is not alarming at this moment, but that the deficit could increase until arriving at a 15% in the 2015.

Water-bearing the Barva and Colima provide to water al 60% of the inhabitants del Central Valley, as it represents around of a million people.

Between the main zones of charge they appear the average and high parts of the corners of Alajuela, Barva, San Isidro, San Rafael, Santa Bárbara, Santo Domingo, Goicoechea, Moravia y Vázquez de Coronado.

 



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