09 February 2013

Okay..now Sunday maybe..hmm snow looking better..?????


New water cut in Santiago de Chile affects 4 million people

By frf / cav | Reuters  -  21 minutes ago
Santiago de Chile, Feb 9 (EFE). - A flood in areas of the mountain range that muddied the river flow caused today a new cut of drinking water in Santiago de Chile, the second in three weeks, affecting about 4 million users.
"At first there were 1.06 million customers.'re Talking about more than 4 million people affected by this cut, almost 80% of the Metropolitan Region (Santiago)," he told Radio Cooperativa the Intendant (governor) in functions, Caterina Klein.
Landslides occurred in the town of San Jose de Maipo, next to the Chilean capital and nestled in the foothills of the Andes, due to an unexpected summer rain more than 4,000 meters of altitude, coupled with snowmelt and high temperatures .
The company Aguas reported around 20.00 pm (23.00 GMT) on Friday that because the rates of turbidity in the water down that sector would require the shutdown of processing plants that supply the capital of 6 , 2 million.
In total, the supply has been interrupted in 25 of the 37 communes (districts) in the Metropolitan Region, and while the company initially announced that the cut would last for 24 hours, today warned that the service could not be normalized until Sunday afternoon.
On Tuesday 22 January, another flood occurred in the same area also forced to shut off for a day, but this time the announcement was made at midnight and many neighbors awoke to the surprise of not having water available.
This time, the court Andinas, controlled by the Spanish Aguas de Barcelona (Agbar), has caused a minor impact to occur on weekends. Also, being summertime, many people are on vacation outside the capital.
Moreover, many buildings have tanks with capacity to supply water to their neighbors for at least a day, and tank trucks are provided for those who have no alternative.
The authorities today have held a coordination meeting in emergency Metropolitan Municipality.
"The turbidity level has gone down rapidly from 380 000 NTU (nephelometric turbidity unit), and we are now at a level of 28,000," said Public Works Minister in office, Lucas Palacios, following that meeting.
"We expect this trend to continue in the company to start processing the water in the coming hours," said Palacios.
He explained that the plants can begin to operate below the 25,000 UNT, although normally operate with a level of 5,000 NTU. In comparison, noted that the emergency occurred three weeks ago reached the 100,000 UNT.
Since last Wednesday the Metropolitan Region of Santiago is maintained with "preventive early warning" for Andean and foothill areas by continuous rainfall, despite the austral summer living this country. EFE
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