Africa-Press – Cape verde. The representative of the PAICV Nation (opposition) elected by the Santo Antão Rosa Rocha constituency today urged the Government to create the conditions so that the water retained by the Canto Cagarra dam “is accessible to farmers”.
The parliamentarian once again asked the Government “to stop sabotaging” the Canto de Cagarra dam, in the Garça valley, in Ribeira Grande, and to “create the necessary conditions” so that this water “is accessible to farmers”.
In any case, the parliamentarian said that “the impact of the dam on the increase in the flow of the old spring, which is located at the dam site, as well as on the sub-surface runoff water that has been feeding the new wells downstream of the dam, is indisputable.”
According to Rosa Rocha, even given the current situation of this hydraulic infrastructure, which is “harming farmers” in Santo Antão, “the MpD system (party in power) is not interested in the dams having positive impacts on agricultural production to continue feed the narrative that these were bad investments by PAICV”.
The representatives of the PAICV Nation, elected by Santo Antão, had recently accused the Government of “doing everything to kill” the hydraulic infrastructures built in Santo Antão during the time this party was in power.
PAICV’s national elected officials referred to the Canto de Cagarra dam, built in 2014, and other hydraulic infrastructures that, in their view, have been “abandoned” by the current executive.
Parliamentarians from this party had also warned about the state of the Chã de Branquinho underground dam, in the municipality of Porto Novo, which has been inoperative for around seven years, awaiting recovery work, after the damage caused by the 2016 floods.
The Canto de Cagarra dam cost around 575 thousand contos, financing mobilized under the credit line with Portugal.
It has a reservoir that holds a volume of 418 thousand cubic meters of water, covering an area of 84 thousand square meters.
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