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Youth Movement for Water

New works in Cutzamala System

The works are built into the system Cutzamala as part of the Modernization Program, you will be viable for 25 years, allowing it to remain among the top ten works of water distribution in the world and 18.2% of the water supply used by the Valley of Mexico, said Jose Luis Luege Tamargo, Director General of the National Water Commission (Conagua).

During a tour of some of the works that integrate the Cutzamala, the holder of Conagua recalled that among the infrastructure built will permit major maintenance work to the system without having to suspend its operation. Thus, the bulk water delivery is made to the State of Mexico and the Federal District does not record decreases.

also highlighted the construction and equipping of module A, which includes foculación, sedimentation and filters in their treatment trains. This will increase the installed capacity in the purification plant of 20 cubic meters per second. Clarified that this does not mean that will increase water delivery to the entities mentioned, it will ensure better operation of water infrastructure.

Other work that the manager of Conagua during the tour was the modernization of the filtration system pl anta The cress-water treatment of America's largest America-and the laying of under drain on existing modules.

also built a dehydration plant and disposal of sludge obtained in the purification process.

This infrastructure will enable a more sustainable management of these substances and save m 3 / s of water in this process, representing 86 000 400 m 3 per day, an amount that could supply to 43 thousand people daily.

the end of the tour of the sites where they built the new system works, the federal official met with more than 400 young people from different universities including the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Autonomous Metropolitan ( UAM), Iberoamericana, La Salle and Anahuac, and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) and Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, among others, who make up a youth movement for the water that seeks to encourage the creation and implementation of projects aimed at promoting culture of sustainable use of water resources.