The installation of residual treatment plants will be one of the actions to fight the present cyanobacterie in the famous Guatemalan lake of Atitlán, a point of concern among authorities.

To begin this work a trusteeship of US 10 million that has been inactive during the last decade will be used, and the Vice president Rafael Espada assured was discovered recently.

Espada also added that 10 years ago that sum was assigned to invest in plants like this ones in the cited lakeside area, but still they are asking why it wasnâ�Öt used.

Another of the actions approved to work in Atitlan is to forbid the use of inorganic fertilizers and soaps, eliminate water faucet in the shores, which are contamination sources and create public ponds with an efficient drainage.

They also will try to influence in the change of the community habits owing to the water use and the construction of homes, an excess that cause a harmful damage in the conditions of the lake in a every sense.

For his part, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Luis Ferraté, announced an inventory in course of the infrastructure of the surrounding area, with a present advance of 74 percent, in which he stressed the trend to septic tanks. He also said the recuperation of the lake must begin in two or three years.

The strategy to stop the Atitlan worsening is becoming urgent before the expansion of the cyberbacterie in its waters, discovered halfway through the month, besides the contamination owing to other causes.

According to scientific opinions this micro organism spreads in Atitlan because of causes like the increase of the nitrates and phosphates levels owing to the increasing unloading of residual waters and the inappropriate use of agrochemical fertilizers.

That micro organism is an aquatic bacterium which has photosynthetic pigments that release oxygen as sub product of its metabolism; some of them produces toxins and could poison the animals of the habitat or those that drink the water.