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After 2:30 pm, President Duque arrived in Suaita to formalize the Water Plan.
For its structuring, there will be 255 projects for Infrastructure, Assurance of Performance, Social and Environmental Management, and more than 190 projects for the construction of sewerage, treatment plants and aqueducts.
The plan will be executed with 26% of resources from the department and municipalities; 26% of contributions from the private sector, tax works and the Nation’s budget. The remaining 48% will be obtained from a department loan through the PDA manager.
The 255 investments are distributed as follows: 78 investments in aqueduct for $ 166,531 million, 49 investments in sewerage for $ 121,066 million, 18 investments in aqueduct and sewerage for $ 64,934 million, 26 environmental and cleaning investments for $ 16,855 million, and 84 investments insurance and social management for $ 11,000 million.
The Agua Vida plan will be executed in three phases based on its development period: 44 investments for $ 51,000 million to be executed in Phase 1 (2020-2021), 133 investments for $ 237,000 million to be executed in Phase 2 (2021- 2022) and 78 investments for $ 92,000 million to be executed in Phase 3 (2022-2023).
During his speech, Iván Duque pointed out that the department will have an investment of more than $ 15 billion for different projects. “It is the Government that has allocated the most resources to Santander.”
The president assured that “where the water comes there is health. It is the main tool to protect children from communicable diseases. We are allowing many families to have clean water, sanitation and improve their quality of life.”
“Let us realize that we are living a pandemic that affects the whole world. It is a natural disaster, more than 1,140,000 people have died in the world, more than 30 thousand Colombians have died from COVID-19. These are not times for pettiness, These are moments to raise the greatness of public policies. The coronavirus is so lethal with life and jobs. Reactivation must unite us, it is only achieved with citizen discipline. There are changes in habits, “he added.
Duque asked citizens to understand that this situation must be faced with responsibility and common sense. “The increases in cases are related to the places where agglomerations have been registered in recent days.”
In addition, the President highlighted the improvement in the recovery of employment and asked the leaders to do so more quickly, through strategies to activate national trade. “Let’s have a Christmas with a safe reactivation. Suddenly we will not be too big in a group, but we will be united.”
Conventions
During the launch of the ‘Plan AguaVida Santander’ the National Government and the departmental government will sign 10 agreements, which have a total investment of more than $ 27,000, of which the Nation will contribute 63% of the resources (approx. $ 15,211 million) .
With these investments, it is planned to benefit 73,222 inhabitants of nine municipalities (Confines, Los Santos, Mogotes, Oiba, San Gil, San Joaquín, Santa Helena del Opón, Suratá and Zapatoca).
Achievements of the National Government
In the department of Santander, ten projects for works in the drinking water and basic sanitation sector have been completed for $ 84,292 million, of which the Nation contributed $ 77,912 million.
These projects have benefited about 697 thousand inhabitants of the municipalities of Socorro, San Gil, Piedecuesta, Málaga, Hato, Girón, Floridablanca and Chipatá.
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