The Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), Maria Luisa Albores Gonzalez, informed associations and residents on Friday that the agency will intervene with studies on the issue of water in Puerto Vallarta.
Albores was at the port on Friday, where she toured and met with neighborhood associations, who shared their observations regarding the buildings being built, among other topics.
“She informed us that they are carrying out a diagnosis of the water issue. It seems that some difficulties are coming precisely because of the deterioration of the environment in this area. They are doing an analysis. They promised to return in no more than a month, and send us through the representatives of the offices to find out the diagnosis,” said Antonio López García, director of the Marina Vallarta Residents’ Association.
Albores was in meetings with the director of the Lerma-Santiago-Pacifico basin, Ernesto Romero Cárdenas, and also made a tour with Mayor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez and the director of Seapal Vallarta, Jorge Alberto Castillo Nuñez.”
In addition to the presentation of the project to improve the water supply of the Ixtapa radial well on the Ameca River, they also visited the Pitillal River and the Cuale River.
The comprehensive project for the rectification of the Pitillal River, in addition to being submitted to Conagua, will also have to be sent to Semarnat for authorization to remove the flora that has grown within the channel of the tributary near its mouth.
As for the dialogue that Albores held with the neighborhood associations, she called for caring for the water resource, and is promoting the formation of citizen committees that make direct reports to the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa).
In a statement, Semarnat indicated that the study would be prepared by the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA) and Conagua.