Uruguayan president declares water emergency amid severe scarcity : Peoples Dispatch
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In recent months, the sale of bottled water has tripled and its price has increased five times in the capital and surrounding areas. Residents have been forced to spend, on average, 300 pesos or USD 8 every day on bottled water
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    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou declared a water emergency in the capital Montevideo and the metropolitan area on June 19, following seven months of drought. Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou, on Monday, June 19, declared a water emergency in the capital Montevideo and the metropolitan area. The department has been facing a severe running water scarcity due to a prolonged drought. The president also reported that a special supply of water -without the increased level of sodium and chlorine currently present in the water supplied by the State Sanitation Works- would be guaranteed for hospitals and the Child and Family Care Centers and the Child and Adolescent Institute of Uruguay facilities. The water levels at the Paso Severino reservoir, which supplies fresh water to the Montevideo metropolitan area where 60% of the country’s population live, are critically low.

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