In Panama, the construction of an agency is required to collect payments for the potable water service, installation of pipelines and distribution of the resource.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", from the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData, includes an updated list of public and private construction projects that have submitted environmental impact studies (EIA) to the respective institutions in each country.
The Instituto de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Panamá has invited tenders for a four-month period for the transportation, distribution and supply of drinking water through tanker trucks for the areas of East Panama, Darien, Tocumen, Chilibre, Colon and Arraijan.
Panama Government Purchase 2020-2-66-0-99-LP-016929:
"Mandatory equipment, which must be available to the tanker trucks:
The Instituto de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Panamá tenders for the transport, distribution and supply of drinking water through tankers.
Panama Government Purchase 2020-2-66-0-99-LP-015470:
"Mandatory equipment, which must be available to the tanker trucks:
a. 3.5 HP motor pump
b. Minimum 2.5-inch diameter hydrant hose.
c. Plastic distribution hose 1.5 inches in diameter by 20 feet long and special wrench to open hydrant
In Costa Rica, the Alvarado administration has asked the BCIE for a loan of $425 million to finance a water supply project in three cantons in Guanacaste.
The project consists in the construction of 300 new kilometers of water channels in the cantons of Santa Cruz, Nicoya and Carrillo, which will cover a potential area of 18,800 hectares.It also contemplates construction of the reservoir on thePiedras River and works on the dam to generate hydroelectric power.
In Panama, growth in water consumption is putting pressure on reservoirs and forcing the design of new alternatives for improving infrastructure, starting with the creation of new reservoirs.
Data from the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) indicates that 350 million gallons of water are currently being consumed per day, an amount that it was thought would not be reached until 2025.
With a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, a process to optimize the production and distribution system of drinking water in Panama will be implemented.
The program includes improving the management of the Institute of Aqueducts and Sewerage Systems (IDAAN) and the optimization of the system to produce and distribute potable water.The Government of Panama will contribute an additional US $5.5 million to the program, for a total value of US $255.5 million.
In Guatemala, the Municipality of Villa Nueva is putting out to tender maintenance, for 10 months, of its potable water distribution system, consisting of 44 wells and 12 repumping points.
Guatemala Government Purchase 7434650:
"Mechanical and electrical maintenance of the potable water well system in the Municipality of Villanueva is required, consisting of 44 municipal wells and 12 repumping points with their respective courses and capacities.
The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers is putting out to tender the supply and installation of hydrants for the Metropolitan and Chorotega regions.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2017LN-000023-PRI:
"Requirements are for installation of steamer and multivalvular type hydrants, 100 and 150mm, in pipes ranging from 100 to 900mm, in the format of delivery according to demand.For this, the necessary branch extensions must be made in 100 and 150mm pipes to reach the places where they are required.
This year the state run water company plans to invest $200 million on drinking water systems, several sewage works, and the renovation of existing production plants.
The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) will allocate $202 million, 56% of which will come from its own resources, 16% from state transfers and 28% from cooperation grants and foreign loans.
The lack of this liquid in cantons such as Puriscal, where they say the problem will continue for three more years, is generating opportunities for water storage and treatment products.
Mismanagement of water resources is the cause of a growing number problems in providing water for both human consumption and industrial use, and at the same time is creating opportunities for businesses.
The Solis administration has announced that by the end of 2017 construction work will start on a dam to ensure a water supply for drinking and irrigation in Guanacaste.
The project to construct a dam on the River Piedras, in Bagaces, has remained on paper for almost thirty years.Estimated at $500 million, construction of the dam could be the solution to the problem of water shortages affecting one of the areas with the greatest tourist development.
Lack of water is stopping productive development, and at the same time the very same disorderly development is causing shortages in several areas of the country.
EDITORIAL
Lack of water is stopping productive development, and at the same time the very same disorderly development is causing shortages in several areas of the country. The Central Valley is one of the areas already feeling the effects of the lack of infrastructure, as well as well defined plans, - a difficulty in Costa Rica- well executed by public institutions.
In response to the severe water supply crisis in Costa Rica tax exemptions have been proposed for the purchase of materials, equipment and devices for saving water.
The state run Aqueducts and Sewers company (AyA) is preparing a bill to exempt three taxes on buying water saving devices such as low consumption tanks, water saving devices for pools or drinking fountains, ejector aerators, filters, faucet timers, volumetric reductors, and low consumption irrigation systems, among other things.
The government has announced that in the next three months it will allocate $3.5 million to the purchase and rental of equipment for pumping and supply trucks and for drilling new wells.
From a statement issued by the Presidency of El Salvador:
The government of the republic has decreed through the National Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers (ANDA) a situation of national emergency to deal with the water shortage affecting the country due to the effects of climate change.
The Institute of Aqueducts and Sewage Systems in Panama is putting out to tender transportation, distribution and supply of drinking water for the areas, Chilibre, Tocumen, Pacora, Tanara, Chepo, Colon, San Miguelito, Chorrera and Arraijan.
Panama Government Purchase 2016-2-66-0-99-LA-010627:
The service contract is for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.