The Government will make changes to the dams and move forward with the construction of three new ones, in Baixo Vouga, Mondego and Alportel. The main objective is to prevent floods and droughts.
Given the growing concerns about extreme weather events and the scenario experienced in the Iberian Peninsula in recent weeks, the Government will move forward with the construction of three new dams.
Do you know what will be built Pinhosão Damto protect the region from Baixo Vougain particular Águeda.
Coimbra and its future high-speed railway station will be better protected thanks to the construction of the Girabolhos Dam, in Mondego.
Already Alportel river, in the Algarvethe dam will be built to protect Tavirawhich has had several areas flooded in recent days.
According to the same newspaper, improvements will be made to existing dams, namely:
- rehabilitate/modernize existing systems;
- telemetry and remote management of water networks;
- in agricultural systems, replacing an open channel with a larger, closed duct
It is also expected to interconnection of all systems to manage resources hydraulics at national level.
Announced in May by Luís Montenegro, the working group Water that Unites is preparing a report that, according to Público, will be delivered to the Government by the end of the year and which will propose measures and practices to be adopted with the intention of ensuring a more effective water management throughout the national territory.
However, the speed with which it is being designed the plan is worrying experts.
Speaking to Antena 1, Francisco Ferreira from Associação Zero warned that it is dangerous for the Government to make decisions like this without evaluating all options first.
“In our opinion, It’s a hasty decisionwithout having the data from a technical-scientific-economic point of view to decide. It seems a little excessive for us”, he considered.
Zero calls for more studies to determine whether the construction of new dams is really the best solution: “This type of decision involves studies from an economic and cost-benefit point of view in terms of the different measures ideal for retaining water in the event of too much water. precipitation. But in many cases it is not the dams or It’s not just dams that solve these types of consequences of extreme weather events“.
