Caracas, Aug 6 (EFE).- The Government of Venezuela will recover 27 sewage treatment plants to decontaminate Lake Maracaibo, the largest in the country, located in the northwest, one of the first “short-term tasks” that They will be implemented for their recovery, ordered by President Nicolás Maduro, the Ministry of Science and Technology reported this Sunday.
This task is one of those agreed upon during a meeting held this week in Maracaibo, in the state of Zulia (northwest, bordering Colombia), as part of the “special plan” for the “rescue, conservation, and sustainable development” of the lake. , affected by oil spills, the confluence of waste and the proliferation of a bacterium called verdigris.
Through Twitter, the Science and Technology portfolio pointed out that other tasks are the supervision of companies that operate on the edge of the lake, the creation of a “legal committee” for “new laws, regulations, decrees and orders” that regulate “the use of this space”, and the development of an educational campaign for “special populations, fishermen and indigenous communities”.
Likewise, during the meeting, headed by the Minister of Electric Power, Néstor Reverol Torres, who leads the execution of this plan, the restructuring of 25,000 “fishermen’s councils” was agreed.
On the other hand, the ministry indicated that the Institute for the Control and Conservation of the Lake Maracaibo Basin (ICLAM) will be the “operations center of the presidential commission for monitoring” the estuary.
During this weekend, regional and ministerial authorities and volunteers carried out cleaning and collection of solid waste and debris on various shores of the lake, in which some 700 people participated, according to the Ministry of Ecosocialism (Environment). EFE
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