Panama's President Mulino Announces Major Water Infrastructure Investments and Economic Growth
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino has announced significant investments exceeding $32 million for the rehabilitation and expansion of potable water treatment plants in the Azuero region. Specifically, he delivered orders for the Roberto Reyna water treatment plant in Chitré and improvements to the Rufina Alfaro plant in Los Santos. The Roberto Reyna plant project, with an investment of $22,484,500 and a 905-day execution period, will involve rehabilitating the plant and water intake, upgrading pumping equipment, pipes, and valves, and adding a new treatment train to increase production to a minimum of 12 million gallons daily. The Rufina Alfaro plant improvements, costing $4,975,500, include a new impulse line to two 250,000-gallon tanks, valve installations, flow measurement, telemetry, and replacing three underground crossings with aerial ones. Additionally, Mulino instructed the reactivation of the rehabilitation of the Parita water treatment plant, with an approximate investment of $4,578,576.91. T...