Santo Domingo.- Natural resources in the country are threatened by a series of factors ranging from environmental pollution to the lack of state policy, which has endangered many species, according to environmental experts.
However, a project called “La Mesa del Agua” is already being implemented in the country, which aims to protect natural resources at the national level.
This project is already a reality in the municipality of San Antonio de Guerra, where the main aquifers in the area have been intervened, which serve as a source of water supply to the population.
“The Water Table is being executed in combination with organizations and institutions of society, among which are the mayor’s office of Guerra and the Ministry of the Environment,” said the deputy of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), Carlos Sánchez, on a visit to The National.
Sánchez is the one who heads the project, and who has the agenda to extend it to other locations, such as Monte Plata and San Pedro de Macorís.
The legislator complained about the “lack of political will” that there has been in the country to protect such important resources as the Ozama and Isabela rivers, which in recent years have been greatly affected by pollution.
He regretted that in the country it has not been possible to reach a consensus to approve the law of territorial domain, with which, according to what he affirms, the disorderly growth of cities could be controlled.
“Because of the lack of a law like that, we have neighborhoods without sidewalks and where services are inefficient, because they were built without any type of planning,” added the deputy and general secretary of the Alliance for Democracy party (APD).
He argued that many low-income families found it necessary to build their homes anywhere, including the banks of rivers.
