To prevent Cuba’s largest reservoir from reaching its dead volume, which was 99,634 million cubic meters in the 1980s, water has been transferred to it from the Tuinucú, Dinorah and Felicidad dams in recent months.
The Zaza dam is capable of assimilating high levels of rainfall. (Photos: Isbel Reina/Facebook).
Thanks to the rains reported in several locations in the province in recent days, the Zaza dam woke up this Thursday with a very slight recovery, reporting an accumulated of just 121 million cubic meters of water, as Dixán Rabelo Obregón, director, informed Escambray. general of the Hydraulic Use Company in Sancti Spíritus.
To prevent the largest reservoir in the country from reaching its dead volume, which is 99,634 million cubic meters of water recorded in the 1980s, in recent months water has been transferred from the Tuinucú, Dinorah and Felicidad dams. , while delivery to its main client has been reduced: the agro-industrial grain company Sur del Jíbaro de La Sierpe, where rice production has in turn contracted.
The panorama of La Zaza marks that of the province that received the start of the cyclonic season with only 261,592 million cubic meters, 22 percent of its filling capacity.
Other data provided by the Command Post of the Delegation of Hydraulic Resources in Sancti Spíritus confirms that a more favorable situation is exhibited by the reservoirs that contribute to the supply of water to the population with Siguaney at 68, Tuinucú at 65 and Lebrige at 51 percent.
The low availability of the precious liquid in the province’s dams is related to the drought that has hit the territory in recent months and that did not even stop in the month of May when the accumulated rainfall was 56 percent of the average. historic with 98.2 mm.
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