San Salvador, July 13 (Prensa Latina) El Salvador’s National Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers (ANDA) today awarded a contract to a Chinese company to drill eight wells around Lake Ilopango.
Announced by the President of the institution, Rubén Alemán, the start of drilling is part of an initiative by both countries to improve water supplies in this capital for more than 200,000 people and shows the progress of the cooperation between the two nations.
Alemán reported that an “advanced” team from the Chinese company, whose name has not been released, will arrive in the country this week.
Drilling has already been contracted out to the Chinese company so they can start drilling wells around the lake. It also includes a water treatment plant and the entire electricity and water network, which is being expanded at 300 liters per second to this system in the southern sector of San Salvador, the manager said.
The perforations will be made in the area surrounding the lake over the next five years with a $40 million investment, which will include the International Economic Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China.
This initiative is part of the Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement between the governments of China and El Salvador, signed in 2019 on the occasion of President Nayib Bukele’s visit to the Asian giant and which has its origins in the last Farabundo Martí Liberation Front government. National.
As part of this rapprochement, with the support of the Asian state, with which a free trade agreement is currently being negotiated, the national library will be built, which will be inaugurated next November, and a national stadium will open in 2024.
The project around Lake Ilopango will commission a water treatment plant to remove heavy matter (iron, magnesium, arsenic) as well as infrastructure for chlorination, dosing and pumping stations, an ANDA source said.
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