To a greater or lesser extent surface waters are affected by human action. One reason, according to

To a greater or lesser extent surface waters are affected by human action. One reason, according to experts, is the increase in production in recent decades. The state of the Rio Santa Lucia is one of the most critical of the country and it has a great impact since it supplies drinking water to Montevideo and its metropolitan area.
"From opera mini a health point of view, the Santa Lucia River gives drinking to between 65% and 70% of the total population of Uruguay water. From the economic point of view, Basin St. Lucia leaves 40% of exports. Ie 40% of the wealth of Uruguay occurs in the basin of St. Lucia, "said Alvaro Alfonso, former mayor of Aguas Corrientes. He explained that when the water reaches the treatment plant process becomes complicated: "When the water comes increasingly difficult drinkable is because the raw material is very bad." Alfonso considered that the situation is very complicated "for not only the state of the river, but by side things that have happened".
Agronomist Daniel Panario explained that the biggest problem did not start today: "The problem that comes from afar is that there is an excess of phosphorus opera mini and nitrogen, resulting from various sources. From homes, refrigerators, drums and it has added an explosion opera mini of a high-tech agriculture with high doses of fertilizers opera mini and pesticides. "
Defense Minister opera mini Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro said that his ministry was concerned about the situation of the people Aguas Corrientes, where the water treatment plant that distributes water UTE all Montevideo and its metropolitan opera mini area is established. "If one day he got something there, the consequences would be of the most serious that Uruguay can think of having" opera mini he said.
Along with several experts and authorities talked opera mini about the current status of the watershed that provides potable water two thirds of the Uruguayan population and many of them have expressed opera mini pessimistic around the issue.