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Master Plan for the Submeridional Lowlands
The Submeridional Lowlands Master Plan project is making progress. It is a key initiative for the integrated management of water resources in the region shared by the provinces of Chaco, Santa Fe and Santiago del Estero.
Called upon by the governors, the CFI contributes its technical experience to an ambitious plan that seeks the sustainability of more than five million hectares subject to periods of floods and droughts, which negatively impact productive activities, the environment and the socioeconomic conditions of the inhabitants.
The Submeridional Lowlands Water Region, which spans the northern part of the province of Santa Fe, the south of Chaco and the southeast of Santiago del Estero, is a large plain with a marked northwest-southeast slope which for decades has been demanding structural solutions and a sustainable management of its water resources.
Specifically, the Master Plan will make it possible to have a comprehensive study of the entire basin, analyze its productive and environmental situation and determine the necessary structural works. The goal is to achieve intelligent water management in this complex hydrological region, enhance this resource’s value and reconvert its production, which entails a multidimensional approach to the problems of the region.
One of the key features of the project is an extensive hydro-environmental monitoring network, which will have 45 automatic stations that will measure different variables: rainfall, temperature, humidity, irrigation levels and river flow, including water level sensors under bridges. This infrastructure is already in place and the results of the measurements within the next 12 months will support the water resource diagnosis that will serve as basis for the performance of the works recommended under the Master Plan.
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