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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
The exploitation of groundwater is reaching its limits in a city where 95% of the drinking water comes from that source and is distributed through a network which is 70 years old.
In order for Managua to have the necessary infrastructure to accompany the economic growth projected for the coming years, the city need to invest in new sources of drinking water.
An agreement has been made to transfer resources to the Institute of Aqueducts and Sewage Systems in order to carry out water treatment works, buy equipment and renovate wells.
The new budget will be used to buy pumps to renovate wells, "... dredging rivers, purchase of equipment and chemicals needed to purify the raw water, well renovations and employment of at least 150 employees in key positions."
Despite being one of the areas with the highest housing growth forecast for the coming years, the problem of drinking water shortages remains unresolved.
As in 2013 , employers in the area are once again denouncing the problems that exist due to lack of water treatment plants and new water sources in Arraiján and other districts in western Panama.
Some of the possible solutions being studied in the various policies on rural water, are the construction of a new water treatment plant, drilling from underground wells, reinforcing the use of tank trucks and restricting developments of the number of houses that can be built in each stage.
Empresa Nicaragüense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados is putting out to tender the construction of transmission and distribution lines, wells and electromechanical works and construction of tanks for the improvement of the Water System of the City of Masaya.
Nicaragua Government Purchase 11/2014:
"Construction of Conduction and Distribution pipelines for the Improvement and Extension of the Water System of the City of Masaya."