Javier Salinas and Alonso Urrutia
Correspondent and sent
La Jornada newspaper
Monday, February 3, 2025, p. 13
Ecatepec, Méx., When closing her three -day work on the State of Mexico, the president of the Republic, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, promised to address the problem of the supply of drinking water for the inhabitants of the municipality of Ecatepec, in where he announced the rehabilitation of 24 wells that are out of service, a quality supply, drainage networks to avoid flooding, paving, safe paths and attending the security issue.
Before more than 10,000 attendees, he promised to follow up personal and monthly to the progress of these actions in Ecatepec, which are part of the Comprehensive Program for the Attention of 10 municipalities in the East of the State.
Since we have the resources, what are we going to do? Well, first we have to make a diagnosis because water is needed in Ecatepec. What is the problem? Well, notice how many wells are they stop need or pierce more.
On his last day of touring the most marginalized region of the entity, he said: We will start fixing everything that is spoiled, so we will start with the 24 wells and then the drinking water networks, and we also have a project for the entire metropolitan area of the city and the State of Mexico, which has What to do with bringing more water so that it is not only well, but to bring more to this area in a sustainable way
Shainbaum said before the excitement of the attendees who previously cried support to have drinking liquid.
Said that quality must be guaranteed because Not only is there water, but it has quality
so that you can get clean to all houses.
He stressed that there will also be support for drainage networks, in order to avoid flooding with pumping and other actions; He also said that there will be support in paving, bump and luminaries, with the creation of safe paths and approach to the security problem.
He stressed that resources will be tripartite, that is, among the levels of municipal, state and federal government. “This is the comprehensive program that we have announced. Now, how are you going to find out how they progress?
We are going to ask Azucena (Cisneros, mayor of Ecatepec) that once we have the whole project, because she is responsible for informing Cologne through Colonia, street through street, house by house how we are going to advance in the program. Personally I’m going to follow up
he told them.
We have been touring three days and this time we are visiting them for the Housing Improvement Program, where 40 thousand pesos are given on a well -being card to fix the houses
he said.
Between shouts of We want water
They claimed him, the general director of the National Water Commission (Conagua), Efraín Morales, tried to initiate his speech. Heinbaum had to intervene to reassure them and ask them to listen to him. He announced that there will be an investment of 260 million pesos for Ecatepec in the attention of the problem of drinking water such as the rehabilitation of the 24 wells and attention to the drainage collectors of the Americas and the fifth area.
