Investment to confront climate change rises 173%

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Faced with a national condition of contrasting water challenges, the federal government's policy on the matter will emphasize prevention, to which President Enrique Peña Nieto ordered the creation of a national hurricane and severe weather agency, modernize the National Meteorological Service and accelerate the construction of 10 regional centers to monitor the climate.

On the 25th anniversary of the National Water Commission (Conagua), the head of the Executive also highlighted the authorization of a budget for this agency close to 50 billion pesos – 16.2 percent more in real terms compared to 2013 –, to be applied also in various infrastructure programs.

Thus, in terms of irrigation, he announced an investment of almost 4 billion pesos; For the Investment Program in Social Infrastructure and Environmental Protection, 1,300 million will be applied, and 6,650 million pesos will be allocated to works for the protection of population centers and productive areas, 173 percent more than in 2013. he pointed out.

The Conagua anniversary ceremony took place in the patio Europe Cell Phone Number List of the commission's headquarters, on Insurgentes Sur Avenue in the Federal District. There, workers with 25 years of service at the institution were honored, a sculpture alluding to the occasion was inaugurated and a postage stamp from the organization was cancelled.

During his speech, the President anticipated for 2014 the inauguration of 21 works of high social benefit, including dams, aqueducts, canals, water treatment plants, drinking water systems, drainage and wastewater treatment plants in 12 states, for an amount close to to 13 billion pesos.



From the WB, 105 million dollars

In addition, he said, between 2014 and 2015, major works will begin, such as the Monterrey 6 project, new sources of supply for the Federal District and the Santa María dam, in Sinaloa.

The modernization of the National Meteorological Service will have a budget of 170 million dollars, of which 105 million will come from the World Bank. Conagua will also work with the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development to delimit the federal zones that may represent risks to the population. Shortly, it will also present the National Water Plan 2013-2018.

David Korenfeld, head of Conagua, highlighted Mexico's condition as a great mosaic of water. However, he added, the country's needs have changed and in 2014 we must learn to live with a new actor: climate change, which exacerbates ingredients of scarcity and excess of rain, causing more intense droughts and floods, which are the two big ones. challenges of the present and the future in terms of water''.

Today, the official highlighted, the reactive strategy in the face of hydrometeorological phenomena has been left behind, for one of prevention and mitigation of damage. “Nature cannot be controlled, but our actions can.”

He also mentioned the presidential willingness to suspend the free release of groundwater to preserve more than 10 billion cubic meters per year, and contaminated aquifers will be recovered in 10 sites in the country, with studies in which the State of Israel participates.