With $100 million, they seek to improve the aqueduct system in the province of Bocas del Toro

With an investment of $100 million, the National Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (IDAAN) intends to strengthen the drinking water and sanitation system in the province of Bocas del Toro.

According to the director of IDAAN, Juan Antonio Ducret, in the coming months they will launch the project to expand the Changuinola water treatment plant and will also carry out another project that will benefit the districts of Guabito and Las Tablas.

“In this semester we hope to be launching two new projects. One is to resume a project that was attempted, which is a gravity intake, and the other is to improve the Changuinola water treatment plant, which is a city that has grown a lot,” he said, assuring that it is necessary to make this improvement to make it more robust and capacity to the system.

He stressed that the new Las Tablas-Guabito project is becoming viable for the next semester and in this way strengthens everything that is drinking water in the province of Bocas del Toro.

“I put together the projects that are being organized in Isla Colón, improvements that we are going to make in the Almirante area in the Padre del Corpus water treatment plant, such as the water treatment plant that supplies the entire Almirante area,” he specified.

Ducret explained that all these works represent about $100 million dollars in investment and pointed out that they are financially viable on the contrary so that they have financial support and guarantee that the projects finish in a timely manner according to the schedules with which they are contracted.