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Bolivia Declares Drought
Emergency
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Bolivia Declares Drought
Emergency
La Paz -The municipal
governments of 17
southern Bolivian
territories are taking
measures Saturday as
part of the emergency
state decreed due to an
intense drought.
In accordance with Water
Minister Rene Orellana,
the executive has
assigned two million
dollars to drill new
wells and help with
other needs of the
regions of Tarija,
Chuquisaca and Santa
Cruz.
Those resources, he
said, would come from
international
cooperation and would be
administered through the
Social Prevention Fund.
The government will
intervene quickly in the
region of Chaco to
cooperate with people
affected in a combined
action between the
Ministry of Defense and
its Vice Ministry of
Civil Defense, he added.
For his part, the
director of Attention to
Disasters and
Emergencies, General
Freddy Blanco, stated
that the Emergency
Operation Center was
activated.
The last reports claimed
that 7,000 families were
affected by the lack of
water, said Blanco.
A report of the
Direction of Emergencies
and Aid of the Vice
Ministry of Civil
Defense and Cooperation
to Integral Development,
pointed out that during
the months of September
and October, there was a
greater incidence of
drought, affecting
cattle breeding and
agriculture.
The weather report of
the National Service of
Meteorology and
Hydrology indicates that
there is a deficit of
precipitation in 70
percent of the highland,
valleys and in Chaco.
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