It is recommended to enable the authorities contingency plans.

It is estimated according to the forecast that since November 2014, until early next year, the weather will be marked by drought and high temperatures.

 

By Juan José Penaranda Arregocés

Corpoguajira, through the Office of Early Warnings, informs Tips (Departmental and Municipal) Management
Disaster Risk and the wider community, the importance of measures to mitigate the return of El Niño, which records a high probability occur from November 2014, until early next year.

Meanwhile, the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Idea), indicated that during the last month the probability of return of El Niño, increased by 72%.

Corpoguajira calls to different actors, including the water supply industry, health, productive, agricultural and forestry, to that already implement preventive and care measures, with the goal of protecting water resources and addressing the different situations that may arise during the drought.

The highest environmental authority of the department, Guajiro invites all to implement the following recommendations:

– Turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth and wash your hands.

– Take shorter showers and turn off the water while soaping and shampooing apply.

– Use the washing machine with a full load. No one takes lave, spends more each load 200 liters.

– When washing dishes soak and lather it all at once, leaving open key. Open to the final rinse only.

– Rinse and clean your razor in a bowl.

– Do not use tap water to haul waste shells or different drainage, channels the pipes.

El Niño, It is a phenomenon of climate variability that is the appearance of warm ocean currents off the coast of America. In the case of Colombia modifies the winter seasons reducing the total amount of rainfall that occurs in the departments of the Caribbean and the Andean region, mainly.