Colombia prioritizes drinking water projects for the Cesar department

Communiqué of the Government of Cesar

This is a machine translation of the original press release issued in Spanish

More than $ 34,800 million were prioritized by Governor Luis Alberto Monsalvo Gnecco and the Ministry of Housing, City and Territory to allocate them to the tripartite agreements that both institutions will sign in the coming days and whose purpose is the construction of five important drinking water projects and basic sanitation in the municipalities of Agustín Codazzi, La Gloria and Astrea, as well as in the townships of San Bernardo (Pelaya) and San Sebastián (Curumaní).

Of this millionaire investment, the contribution of the Minvivienda will be 60%, while the Government of Cesar will contribute the remaining 40%. In Agustín Codazzi, the first stage of the construction and optimization of the conduction of the distribution networks of the aqueduct system will be contracted, whose value exceeds $ 13,700 million; Meanwhile, in Astrea, phase 2 of the optimization of the aqueduct and sewerage systems of the urban area will be contracted, which reaches $ 10,210 million. Likewise, in the municipality of La Gloria the hydraulic optimization of the drinking water treatment system and micro-measurement of the urban head will be carried out.

The investment will also materialize in rural areas of Cesar. Thanks to these tripartite agreements, the construction and optimization of the aqueduct system of San Sebastián (Curumaní), whose value exceeds $ 2,558 million, and the construction and optimization of the aqueduct system of the San Bernardo district (Pelaya), which reaches $ 4,604 millions.

With these five projects, which make up the Water Revolution, the Government of Cesar will continue to close social gaps in these municipalities, benefiting nearly 30,000 inhabitants and allowing access to home public services with quality, coverage and continuity.