On the day of the date and after more than two years of negotiations, the World Bank approved a loan of U $ S 840 million to support the proposed Sustainable Management of the Matanza Riachuelo
is a credit of the greatest importance for the consolidation plans of the Matanza Riachuelo, given that most of the same (about U $ S 640 million) will be used to fund the works to gain control the sewage is now discharged untreated into the River. (See article on
site FARN )
also the remaining funding will finance technical assistance schemes to improve environmental monitoring and control as well as non-repayable contributions to SMEs to transform their production systems and adopt environmentally sustainable processes, provide technical assistance for environmental planning and funding for pilot work and urban drainage, and institutional strengthening of the Authority of the Matanza - Riachuelo (ACUMAR). jurisdictional agency has responsible for the sanitation of the Brook.
Beyond all the technical considerations, it is necessary to note that the granting of this loan, the largest in the world that the World Bank has been granted for remediation work is an important step to provide the state with the necessary resources to walk the path that leads to improve the impaired watershed.
Nevertheless, although it implies a step in the right direction, many things must be done in the same way to finally become a reality can begin the rebuilding and sanitation of the Brook and here is where the most important and difficult to manage.
In this sense, just remember that for more than a decade as part of the announcement of "Plan of the 1000 days of Riachuelo" promoted by former Environment Secretary Maria Julia Alsogaray, the country took out a loan to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in the amount of $ 250 million, aimed at implementing the Program for Management of Natural Resources Matanza-Riachuelo Basin. "
As indicated in the report on the website FARN
, it was used in activities that do little or nothing affected the sanitation and mostly sub-run, so in 2002 it was partially discontinued and ordered a partial reallocation of funds of $ 150,000,000 to resolve s social plans.
other hand, the National State, in its various efforts have not been characterized adequately address the needs that have this impaired watershed and more than two million people directly suffer the consequences of pollution.
The announcement in the days of the date is a right step to provide the state with the necessary tools to perform remedial actions and the restructuring of environmental damage identified by the Court and as often claimed by those affected and the different actors civil society. However, such a task requires the implementation of a true State Policy for the Brook, which is still conspicuous by its absence.
