HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 3 (acn) The head of the Cuban Civil Defense Staff, Division General Ramon Pardo Guerra called for efficient use of water given the prolonged drought affecting the country and warned that the situation is serious.
During a working meeting at the Civil Defense headquarters on Tuesday on the impact of drought on the country and the measures to be adopted, the division general said that the hydrologic situation is serious and poses risk to human health if water is not distributed with the necessary and sanitary quality.
The Civil Defense chief called on representatives of several sectors like the Science Ministry, Agriculture, Economy and others to work shoulder to shoulder in order to minimize the impact of drought, Granma newspaper reported on Wednesday.
He said that from November 2014 to April this year, 11 provinces were affected by scarce rainfall.
"Despite the measures already adopted, there is lack of understanding about the risk and danger posed by this situation and particularly if such measures are not effectively adopted in sectors like agriculture, the industry and the services," he noted.
Over the past six months, 75 percent of the island has been affected by the lack of rainfalls, said the scientific director of the Meteorology Institute Abel Centella at the working session.
In his report, Centella said that by the end of May the severe drought has mostly affected western Matanzas, Havana, Pinar del Rio provinces as well as the eatern territories, which translates into 41 percent of the whole nation.
Some of the general measures proposed by the officials at the session included the intensification of an educative program for the people through the mass media on the need to save water; a definitive solution to water sources that are systematically being exhausted and the reinforcement of actions against illegal events along the water distribution infrastructure.
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