In the midst of the extreme heat wave that registers New Lion, Dam levels warn of a new water crisis in the entity.
The latest report from the National Water Commission indicates that The level of the main reservoirs is only around 35 percentwhile Cerro Prieto is dying with 6% storage.
The El Cuchillo Damthe largest in the state and where a second aqueduct was recently commissioned, has begun to suffer the increase in extractions, reporting only 35 percent storage.
While The Rodrigo Gómez ‘La Boca’ dam improved its level by registering 38%but this is because it has become the main recipient of Cuchillo II.
He improvement of this damlocated in the municipality of Santiago, is due to the fact that It is one of the main tourist attractions due to its proximity to Monterrey and the metropolitan area.
Heat ‘dries’ the dams in Nuevo León
The situation is worrying given the approach of summer and the arrival of extreme heatin fact starting next Tuesday Temperatures above 40 degrees are expected, which will trigger the consumption of water and at the same time cause the evaporation effect in the dams.
Last Thursday, the director of the Río Bravo de la Conagua Basin organization in Nuevo León, Luis Carlos Alatorre Cejudo, pointed out that Below-average rainfall forecast will remain for the next three months.“For the month of May, according to information from the National Meteorological Service, it tells us that we will have an anomaly of 5% slightly below the historical average,” said the official.
”However, in the month of June the anomaly increases negatively to 17% below the historical average. For the month of July, the historical average continues to be 13% lower than what it normally rains,” added Alatorre.
Although service cuts have not been implemented at this time, The situation is not encouraging at all since to date the accumulated water in all the dams is the lowest in recent years.
”In 2020, as of May 2, we had 789 million (cubic meters) between the three dams, in 2021, 675 million; and so on until reaching the 436 million that the three dams add up in 2024″, assured Luis Carlos Alatorre.
He recalled that for the month of May 2022, even though there was more water than at present, Nuevo León was already in the middle of the water crisis and with cuts to the supply of the inhabitants of Monterrey and the Metropolitan Area, but The El Cuchillo II work that the federal government launched in 2023 helped mitigate low storage levels.
”I make another call with this information for citizens to support and understand that we have to adjust in consumption and more in the next summer “We already have him knocking on the door,” said the general director of the Río Bravo de la Conagua Basin organization.
