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http://www.europapress.es/latam/pan...aria-escasez-agua-potable-20110111222720.html
Spanish to English Translation
Panama maintains a health alert by the scarcity of potable water
PANAMA CITY, Jan. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) -
Panama will be kept on alert indefinitely health, confirmed on Tuesday the Minister of Health, Franklin Vergara, who warned that the situation remains complicated due to the scarcity and poor quality of drinking water.
The state of alert was imposed for 34 days when the government of Ricardo Martinelli ordered reduced by 40 percent the production plant Chilibre, the high turbidity caused by sediment and debris that rains Alhajuela dragged the lake.
The Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (IDAAN) has reported that the plant operates at 60 percent capacity. The facilities set within more than one million people living in the Panamanian capital. After completion of the work of cleaning filters and settlers would return to normal service. Meanwhile, hundreds of communities are being attentive to trucks that give priority to hospitals and schools.
Vergara has indicated in statements to the media that have "fired a few parameters" that, to date, were monitored as the cases of diarrhea due to poor water quality from Chilibre facilities. The aim is to avoid the emergence of cholera cases.
Spanish to English Translation
Panama maintains a health alert by the scarcity of potable water
PANAMA CITY, Jan. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) -
Panama will be kept on alert indefinitely health, confirmed on Tuesday the Minister of Health, Franklin Vergara, who warned that the situation remains complicated due to the scarcity and poor quality of drinking water.
The state of alert was imposed for 34 days when the government of Ricardo Martinelli ordered reduced by 40 percent the production plant Chilibre, the high turbidity caused by sediment and debris that rains Alhajuela dragged the lake.
The Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (IDAAN) has reported that the plant operates at 60 percent capacity. The facilities set within more than one million people living in the Panamanian capital. After completion of the work of cleaning filters and settlers would return to normal service. Meanwhile, hundreds of communities are being attentive to trucks that give priority to hospitals and schools.
Vergara has indicated in statements to the media that have "fired a few parameters" that, to date, were monitored as the cases of diarrhea due to poor water quality from Chilibre facilities. The aim is to avoid the emergence of cholera cases.