Government of Michoacán and Federal Chamber of Deputies will promote hydraulic infrastructure work

Work is being done for the technification of more than 492 thousand hectares under irrigation in the state
Morelia, Michoacán, July 28, 2023.- The Government of Michoacán and the Congress of the Union defined strategies for the technification of agricultural irrigation in the state and thereby make the production of the field and the use and care of water in the entity more efficient.
During the XXI regular meeting of the Commission of Hydraulic Resources, Drinking Water and Sanitation of the Federal Legislative Power, developed in the Michoacán capital, Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, said that the entity occupies the first place at the national level with 30 percent of agricultural exports, so it is necessary to launch with the support of the Legislative Power, a bank of projects that already has the entity and the National Water Commission (Conagua), for the good management of natural resources.
The state governor announced the most outstanding water projects that the State Government carries out with its own resources and where more than one billion pesos have been allocated, such as the construction of water collectors in the Duero River Basin for sanitation, as well as the installation of the conduction line of the Atapaneo wastewater treatment plant to benefit around 900 hectares of cultivation of the area of the capital and Álvaro Obregón.
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The president of the Commission of Hydraulic Resources Drinking Water and Sanitation, Rubén Gregorio Muñoz Álvarez, said that after doubling the budget for Conagua, eight states are contemplated where water works projects could be developed, in order to increase agricultural production and reduce the water that is designated for irrigation, one of them, He said it will be Michoacan that is also an example in planning and actions in terms of works for this area through multi-year projects.
For his part, the General Coordinator of the State Commission of Water and Basin Management, Luis Roberto Arias Reyes, said that progress is being made in the establishment of public policies since one of the problems facing the countryside is adequate infrastructure, because water is diminished by agricultural and industrial use and 83 percent of the total water in the state. is designated for these activities. In that sense, he stressed that more than 900 million pesos are already invested in 35 hydraulic work projects.
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The session was attended by the deputies members of the Federal Commission of Hydraulic Resources, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Enrique Godínez Del Rio; the federal deputy district III, Tamaulipas, Juan González Lima; deputy of district VI, Baja California, Héctor Ireneo Mares Cossio; deputy of the XII district, Nuevo León, José Luis Garza Ochoa; deputy of the XXII district, Mexico City, Víctor Gabriel Varela López; as well as Michoacan legislators, municipal presidents, leaders of the agricultural sector and state officials.

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