Desalination plant installed in rural community of Granma

For the benefit of the population, the assembly of a water desalination plant goes on in the Papi Lastre rural community, belonging to the municipality of Cauto Cristo, in the eastern province of Granma.

As part of an investment started in 2018, the work is expected to be finished in the next June, according to Aristónico Alarcón Contreras, investment manager in the Provincial Delegation of Water Resources.

Alarcón told that they already have financing for other five installations of this type, of which in the current 2020 it is planned to assemble one in the Troya neighborhood, in the coastal municipality of Manzanillo, and in Las Mangas, in Bayamo; settlement where the bulldozers are moving the earth.

The remaining three plants – he said – will be located in the July 26 neighborhood (known as Aereopuerto Viejo), in the National Monument City; and in the Buey de Gallego community, in Yara, and Molino Rojo, also in Bayamo.

In correspondence with the availability of fuel, steel and other necessary supplies – which could be affected due to the complex situation of the country – these investments will be executed according to plan, since a large majority of the equipment is guaranteed, he added.

By phone Roberto Bazán Osorio, president of the Papi Lastre Popular Council, told ACN that the assembly of the plant will benefit not only the 702 inhabitants of the community of the same name, but the 1,800 residents of the area.

This includes residents of El Jardín, Babiney, La Victoria and other smaller settlements, also affected by the lack and poor water quality, he said.

Gennis Corrales Sánchez, director of Water Resources Management in the Provincial Company of Hydraulic Resources, pointed out that Río Cauto and Cauto Cristo are the municipalities most affected by high levels of salinity and low availability of underground sources of supply.

Concluded in 2018, the desalination plant located in El Salvial neighborhood, also in Cauto Cristo, was the first of its type in Granma. (By Elizabeth Reyes Tasé)

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