Tag: ose

• Tuesday, September 9th 2025 - 09:51 UTC

  Uruguay secures CAF loan for dam construction

  

  Uruguay's state-owned water company, OSE, has secured a US$130 million loan from the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean to finance the construction of the Casupá dam, a strategic project to guarantee the supply of drinking water for Montevideo's metropolitan area until 2045.

• Thursday, July 6th 2023 - 11:59 UTC

  Uruguay taking action to face water crisis: drinking water reserve is empty for Montevideo

  

  Uruguay's Congress Wednesday unanimously approved the Water Emergency Fund to finance access to bottled water among other measures amid an unprecedented shortage of drinking water due to the drought the country is going through.

• Monday, May 15th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  Shortage of drinking water in Montevideo getting critical

  

  Montevideo Mayor Carolina Cosse will ask the National Emergency System (Sinae) to step in as the shortage of drinking water in the Uruguayan capital gets more and more serious. The city and the Metropolitan area is feared to run out of drinking water in between 20 to 30 days due to lack of rainfall.