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02-23-2009, 01:00 PM
Hector Rodriguez Pimentel, director of the National Hydraulic Resources Institute (INDHRI), says that the DR only stores 17% of the 11 billion cubic meters of water it consumes in one year. This is 13% below international standards. He said that in order to tackle the issue of water storage, his department, which oversees reservoirs in the DR will launch a ten-year plan with a US$2.3 billion budget, of which US$1.94 billion will go towards building the new dams and US$300 million towards irrigation systems. He told Hoy newspaper that the DR has 25 billion cubic meters of water at its disposal.
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