Monterey, NL. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accompanied by the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García Sepúlveda, as well as federal and state officials, visited the pumping plant at noon this Saturday, China Monterrey Aqueductwhich is located on one side of the dam The knifein the municipality of China, 124 kilometers from Monterrey.
At the entrance of the facilities Water and Drainage Services of Monterrey In the municipality of China, the president commented to the local press from his vehicle: “we have come to find a way to solve the problem of water supply for the metropolitan area, for Monterrey.
It is worth mentioning that in a statement, the state government mentioned that the The Knife II aqueduct it will have a diameter of 2.13 meters and a length of 100 kilometers, 5 pumping stations and a pumping head of 350 meters; its approximate cost will be 10,400 million pesos.
Before the tour in the pumping plant China-Monterreythe state president pointed out that the project is part of the Water Master Plan, which will guarantee its supply until 2050.
“We are going to start, to inaugurate the second pipeline, the famous Cuchillo II, which is going to bring us an additional 5,000 liters per second to the city of Monterrey, this pipeline should have been built in 1996,” said President López Obrador.
“This is part of an ambitious plan to guarantee water by 2050, the Knife IIthe Libertad Dam, the shallow wells, the deep wells, the sectorization in Water and Drainage, the (pressure) reducers,” added the federal president.
Meanwhile, Samuel García reported that this Sunday, August 14, together with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, they will make an announcement in the Fourth Military Region.
In recent days, the secretary of GovernorateAdán Augusto López had reported that the estimated investment for the aqueduct it would be 15,700 million pesoswith the participation of the federal, state and municipal governments.
However, it transpired that today the President and the governor agreed that it would be a shared budget between the federation and the state government.
During the visit to the municipality of China, the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López; the director of Conagua, Germán Martínez Santoyo; the director of Banobras, Jorge Mendoza; the director of Water and Drainage Services of Monterrey, Juan Ignacio Barragán; among other state government officials.
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