Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus said Tuesday that December 15 is the deadline for completing dredging and cleanup work at the Las Pintas reservoir and canal, and that he is pushing to finish the task sooner.
The work is central to resolving the current water crisis in Guadalajara, he said. In early October, state authorities suspended the Las Pintas supply system, shutting down the old, open-air Lake Chapala-to-Guadalajara canal after detecting irregular wastewater discharges amid rising water quality complaints. The Las Pintas reservoir sits in Tlaquepaque, on the municipality’s boundary with El Salto, in the southeastern corner of the Guadalajara metropolitan area. It is fed by the open-air conduit from the lake — a system that, apart from the contamination, is inefficient, losing a significant share of its water to evaporation.
The Las Pintas system closure cut around 30 percent of the metro area’s water delivery capacity and forced the state government to impose an extreme rationing program — tandeos — affecting just over 40 percent of the city’s neighborhoods.
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