Lima, Oct 27 (EFE) Peruvian President Alan Garcia has announced the construction of 100 dams and 30 reservoirs, projects that the government forecasts will be concluded by the end of 2010.
“We have to scatter the water all across Peru because that’s going to protect our children from the warming of the earth,” said Garcia Monday while inspecting the Sambor Huaypo irrigation project in the southeastern region of Cuzco, which will provide water for irrigating about 2,500 hectares of cropland.
“We’re going to launch here,” he said, “a project in which next year, in December, we’re going to have created 100 dams all over Peru and 30 large reservoirs that are going to allow us to store water for the benefit of agriculture,” the president said.
Garcia added that while industrialised countries continue “acting badly against agriculture and against God, we will protect the people from the results of their bad behaviour”, by undertaking projects of this type.
“We have to build our own liquid glaciers here. If the developed world, with all the petroleum they burn, are destroying the environment and causing serious problems to occur, we’ll replace the glaciers with our lakes, and the faster we do it the better,” Garcia said.
