The alarm in Santiago de Cuba by the absence of rains continues. The rainy season will culminate in November and has not yet reached a natural event that floods our reservoirs.
Dams ensure only a diminished 27.7 percent of the entire volume that can collect in the province.
This situation has made specialists Hydraulic Company Achievement Santiago de Cuba to reduce the rate of delivery of the dams to the city. 2.3 cubic meters per second only comes 1.3 cubic meters. Hence domino effect which distribution cycles are triggered and less time delivery service household water.
However, despite the refusal of the rain to fall and the Cuban State Water Resources specialists and they materialize some projects that were as measures of nature reserves but have pushed its materialization.
The basic logic dictates that the less rain water and consume volumes become depressed more. Continuing drought traditional measures would be insufficient. Are being foresight rare alternatives and actions to be implemented, as the construction of wells as other more complex as the use of sea water for some activities.
In the Parada area where the reservoir of the same name is found, and the earthworks for the installation of a desalination plant that will contribute to that water system with about 50 liters per second, seawater runs.
However the demand system saves about 300 liters per second to meet the demand of delivery. The plant, one of the most expensive technologies, will address the need for major water bodies such as the refinery Hermanos Diaz and Antonio Maceo thermoelectric plant.
To this action to the popular wisdom called injecting a cloud, a solution which is not final but that the country does not rule adds.
It is an agreement signed by the Cuban government and Russia to supply silver iodide into the clouds and thus carry out the process called artificial rain or provoked.
According to experts of the Technical Sub National Institute of Hydraulic Resources it is a process that has guaranteed success in other countries like China and Canada. If we are injecting clouds in the Cauto basin you could extend the experience to other Cuban provinces whipped by drought.
For now if the water does not fall from the sky the people form Santiago de Cuba should make more efficient use of water resources. The outstanding shares are worth as much as close a key in a timely manner.