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Master Plan for the Submeridional Lowlands
The project for the elaboration of the Submeridional Lowlands Master Plan is advancing. It is a key initiative for the integrated management of the region's water resources shared by the provinces of Chaco, Santa Fe and Santiago del Estero.
Convened 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 generate negative consequences for productive activities, the environment, and the socioeconomic conditions of the inhabitants.
The Submeridional Lowlands Water Region, which occupies 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 solutions structures and 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 objective is to achieve intelligent water management in this complex hydrological region, to value it and reconvert it into productive terms, and supposes a multidimensional approach to the problems of the region.
One of the keys to 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 level sensors of the riverbeds under the bridges. This infrastructure is already in place, and the results of the measurements in the next 12 months will support the diagnosis of the water resource, based on which the works recommended by the Master Plan will be carried out.
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