Since mid-October, the Cutzamala System reached a capacity of historical storage of 96.8 percentso increased 45 percent the volume of drinking water which is supplied in the State of Mexico and Mexico Cityreported the National Water Commission (Conagua).
During the information session of the Technical Committee for the Operation of Hydraulic Works (CTOOH), the general director of the Water Basin Organization of the Valley of Mexico (OCAVM), Citlalli Elizabeth Peraza Camachodetailed that as of this Monday, the total level in the System’s storage dams is 757.44 million cubic meters (Mm³), the highest in the last nine years.
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Specifically, the El Bosque damlocated in Michoacán, has a 97.5 percent fillwith a volume of 197.40 Mm³; the Valle de Bravoin the State of Mexico, 97.1 percent, with 382.90 Mm³, and finally Villa Victoriain the same entity, contains 95.4 percent of storage, with 177.14 Mm³.
15 municipalities and 13 mayors benefited from water supply
In all, he said, 15 Mexican municipalitiesthrough the Water Commission of the State of Mexico, and 13 mayoralties of the country’s capital They are the beneficiaries of the increase in flow.
At the moment, The supply has increased to 15,706 m³/s, with 9,403 m³/s intended for the CDMX y 6.303 m³/s al Edomex, which would reach 100 percent of the supply, through the Cutzamalawhich has benefited approximately five million inhabitants of the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico.
However, the Conagua called the inhabitants of Valley of Mexicomainly from the metropolitan area, to maintain a rational use of water and promoting its savings.
In an interview with this medium, Peraza Camacho assured that even with 85 percent storage which was scheduled for the end of September, supply was assured for at least the next two years.
Dams rebound
At the national level, the rains allowed a 6.5 percent surplus above the historical average, which allows the 210 main dams in the country register a rebound of four thousand 68 million cubic meters of water in the last 15 days.
With this, they accumulate a 72 percent fill levelthat is, 89 thousand 902 million cubic meters of water.
Until last week, 81 dams have more than 100 percent storage; 62 between 75 and 100 percent; 35 between 50 and 75 percent and 32 have less than 50 percent.
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“The Cutzamala System is fully recovered (…) Expenditure has increased, that is, there is now a greater provision to the metropolitan area (of the Valley of Mexico),”
Citlalli Peraza Camacho
General Director of the OCAVM
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The supply of drinking water has been assured for years, says Conagua.
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