The Government of Mexico today presented/displayed the Hydric National Program, with which he looks for to guarantee the water supply to the 95 percent of the Mexicans for 2012 and systems of sewage system to 90 of each 100 citizens.

There is a imbalance between the availability of the resource, the population growth and the development económicó, affirmed in the presentation of the plan the Mexican president, Felipe Calderón. To reach the goal of fixed potable water supply after the country, whose present population is of 103.2 million people, supposes to extend the service to about ten million more of Mexican, counting on a future increase of the number of inhabitants. Calderón stressed that in the last 55 years the Mexican population has quadruplicated itself and has been concentrated in the cities, where is more expensive to take the water
President Felipe Calderon pledged Monday to invest US$21 billion (€13.6 billion) in water projects to expand drinking water networks, drainage and water treatment plants over the next five years.

“This will be the biggest investment in (water works) in the history of Mexico,” Calderon said at an event unveiling the program in Mexico’s central Hidalgo state.