Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has vowed that an aquifer under construction along the northern Guadalajara beltway (Periferico) will be concluded within three weeks to help alleviate the metro-area’s current water shortage crisis, which residents say is getting worse day after day.
As the hot season kicks in, the city’s water supply is being restricted in many neighborhoods, fuelled, says the governor, by the increased demand for potable water during the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with a dramatic drop in the level of the Calderon Dam, which supplies 14 percent of the city’s H2O.
Early in February, Alfaro had warned that the Calderon Dam, a fishing paradise located in the municipality of Zapotlanejo, could dry up within a month, and that urgent steps would be required to maintain Guadalajara’s water supply.
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