Peru prepares for El Niño with more than 1,000 million dollars | Video

Lima, Aug 3 (EFE).- The Government of Peru has allocated around 4,000 million soles (about 1,100 million dollars) to attend to the phenomenon of coastal El Niño, which is expected for the end of the year with the possibility that the budget will increase to 5,000 million soles, as declared this Thursday by the Minister of Economy, Alex Contreras.

CAMERA: MIKHAIL HUACÁN.

STATEMENTS BY ALEX CONTRERAS, MINISTER OF ECONOMY: And more machinery is coming, it is a historic budget, we are talking about 4000 million soles. In the 2017 we spent 2700 and those 4000 will probably rise, roughly speaking, we are estimating to 5000 million. So yes there is an effort. It has been 4 years since the rivers were cleaned, 4 years since prevention work was started. It has been four decades, since I was born, since storm drainage works have not been carried out, nor the resilient infrastructure that would allow us to structurally face El Niño. And we are doing that now.

Are there lessons learned? Indeed, rivers were not unclogged, Piura in 2017 bought 24 pumps that would have helped to alleviate the situation a lot, of those 24 pumps only one was operational at 25%. That is the work of the Government.

Metadata

Date: 03/08/2023 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Disaster and accident » Flood
Economy, business and finance » Macro economics
Environmental issue
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 62 seconds
Reference: 55011657419
Relevance: Normal