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Montevideo, July 12th 2025 - 17:39 UTC

Tag: water

  • Thursday, August 24th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

    Uruguay: End of water crisis decreed

    The quality of the water today is very good, Lacalle argued

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou decreed the end of the water crisis affecting the South American country's capital, it was announced Wednesday in Montevideo. Lacalle said Decree 177 dated June 19, 2023, had been revoked, thus reinstating taxation on bottled water, it was explained.

  • Friday, July 14th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

    Uruguayan Gov't speaks of “inaccuracies” in UN report about water

    UN experts highlighted the human right to water

    Uruguay's Foreign Ministry Thursday issued a communiqué in response to a UN report on the water crisis the South American country is going through. The government “acted in a preventive manner, the water is still drinkable and guaranteed to the most vulnerable sectors [is] the purchase of double the daily average of water consumed per person in our country,” the statement read.

  • Thursday, July 13th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

    Uruguay's Tourism Minister says Argentine President's words were harmful

    Viera regretted that President Fernández would echo fake news

    Uruguay's Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera Wednesday said that Argentine President Alberto Fernández's remarks that no water came out when people opened the faucets in Montevideo had resulted in numerous cancellations.

  • Tuesday, July 11th 2023 - 09:16 UTC

    Water crisis: Uruguay accepts Argentina's help

    Lacalle insisted Argentina's help “adds up” but is “insignificant” in terms of volumes of drinking water consumed normally in Montevideo

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday said his country would be accepting Argentina's help to mitigate the water crisis but added that the amount of drinking water offered was nowhere near the needs to match the volumes consumed normally in Montevideo.

  • Saturday, July 8th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentina offers to help Uruguay through the water crisis

    Lacalle thanked the offer but declined it for now

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández offered his Uruguayan colleague Luis Lacalle Pou a mobile water treatment plant, supplies, and personnel to assist in the drinking water crisis affecting Montevideo and the Metropolitan area.

  • Thursday, March 30th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Falklands promotes the use of Water Wise

    Murrell River and Moody Brook, Stanley water sources

    Using water, a finite resource efficiently has many benefits, not only to consumers but also to the wider Falkland Islands community and environment. Simple behavioral changes such as taking showers instead of baths, turning taps off whilst cleaning teeth, and using watering cans instead of hosepipes can significantly reduce the amount of water we use on a daily basis. This would also save energy, both in homes as well as at the water treatment plant which is great for both saving money as well as for the environment.

  • Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 08:37 UTC

    “Laughable advice from utilities to save water instead of showers,” UK customers

    UK customers have been given some extravagant advice: use damp towels or spray bottles instead of showers during the dry summer.

    Water supplies in the UK have been seriously reduced because of recent heat waves and a lack of rain forcing some utilities to introduce hosepipe bans in some areas to save water resources.

  • Saturday, February 6th 2021 - 07:20 UTC

    Falklands planning climate adaptation strategy to help farmers combat the lack of water

    Lafonia is one of the driest areas of the Falkland Islands with precipitation in the range 273–485 mm a year, but this was the first time the huge pond had dried out (Pic FIG)

    Lafonia, the lower half of East Falklands is suffering from a drought and this has an impact for farmers and rural activities, a situation that was pointed out by Goose Green manager Keith Alazia when he revealed that water sources “have all but dried up around Lafonia.”

  • Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 06:36 UTC

    On World Water Day, UN launches flagship report on climate change

    ¬2.2 billion people currently do not have access to safely managed drinking water, and 4.2 billion, or 55% of global population, are without safely managed sanitation

    On World Water Day, the United Nations launched a flagship report which says that reducing both the impacts and drivers of climate change will require major shifts in the way we use and reuse the Earth’s limited water resources.

  • Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

    Fires in Australia threaten the water infrastructure that supplies Sydney

    Temperatures in New South Wales state are forecast to head back towards 40 Celsius early next week, fuelling fires near Warragamba Dam, which provides water to about 80% of Sydney's 5 million resident

    Australian authorities said on Friday that they are focused on protecting water plants, pumping stations, pipes and other infrastructure from intense bushfires surrounding Sydney, the country's largest city. Firefighters battling the blazes for weeks received a reprieve of slightly cooler, damper conditions over Christmas, but the respite is not expected to last long.

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