Peru accelerating water projects around Lake Titicaca
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's government is quickening the pace of potable water and sewerage projects around Lake Titicaca, an area that has been polluted for decades by city sewerage and mining tailings.
Work is moving ahead with 10 wastewater treatment plants in the Titicaca watershed, Kuczynski said, adding he plans to travel around the country in the coming months with housing and construction minister Edmer Trujillo to inaugurate potable water projects.
The US$437mn project aims to install plants in the towns of Puno, Ilave, Juliaca, Ayaviri, Yunguyo, Azángaro, Juli, Huancané, Lampa and Moho. Many of the towns pump their waste into Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake which Peru shares with neighboiring Bolivia.
"We want all Peruvians – in the highlands, jungle and the coast – to have clean water in their homes and sewerage systems that don't pollute," Kuczynski said during a televised inaugural ceremony of a water treatment project in the town of Desaguadero, Puno.
The 52.6mn-sol (US$15.5mn) Desaguadero project, which will benefit 20,000 local inhabitants, includes two reservoirs, a potable water pipeline network and 1,702 new home connections, according to a statement on the presidential website. It also features a wastewater treatment plant, a pumping chamber and 1,987 new connections.
Kuczynski, who took office in July, has pledged to eliminate all bureaucratic obstacles to US$25bn in delayed infrastructure investment, including 170 potable water and sewerage projects. He has also announced plans to install connections for water services for 100% of the population by 2023.
Kuczynski's government, faced with the country's worst drought in a decade, previously inaugurated potable water projects in Ayacucho and Callao.
The Andean region is facing the effects of the La Niña phenomenon, where cooler ocean temperatures cause drought in the highlands.
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