Celebrations on World Water Day

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.- The Water and Sewer Corporation of Santo Domingo (CAASD) announced that it would invest 3% of the budgets of the projects it is constructing to maintaining the hydrological watersheds of the rivers that supply water to the nation's capital.

Ramon Rivas, the director general of the CAASD, offered yesterday this information in his speech commemorating the World Water Day.

The activity was carried out together with the Minister of the Environment at the Isa River water station, the place where, in 1927, the first modern aqueduct for the city of Santo Domingo was built.

The official explained that the decision to make use of the regulations for the preservation of the hydrological watersheds was approved by the Board of Directors of the CAASD.

During the ceremony, Minister of the Environment Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal and the student Andrea Martiche Frias also spoke, with the minister reading a message from President Fernandez, and the student reading one from United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.