Actual compliance with AG 236-2006 in the Lake Amatitlán basin
- Water for industry
- Industrial water, wells and discharges
- Audited
Low. Villa Nueva concentrates '150 plants… private and public' for treatment, of which only about 25% were working properly in 2017 (República, 15 May 2017). The Villalobos river basin 'contributes more than 95% of the water' reaching Lake Amatitlán, and the river carries 2.50 m³/s (2,500 L/s) of wastewater and 1.5 million tonnes of sediment a year (AMSA 2016, cited by EMPAGUA and República); the basin covers 14 municipalities and more than 2 million inhabitants (Prensa Libre, 17 Mar 2021). The claim that 'AMSA audited about 3,000 companies and 92% do not comply', which was in circulation, appears in none of the sources cited and was withdrawn in the audit; ask AMSA for its register of generating entities. For an entrant held to ESG standards the differential is large and visible.
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Figures
- Treatment plants in Villa Nueva (private and public)
- ~150; ~25% working well
- Wastewater carried by the Villalobos river
- 2.50 m³/s (2,500 L/s)
- Sediment carried into the lake
- 1.5 million t/year
- Villalobos basin's contribution to the lake
- >95% of the water
- Amatitlán basin
- 14 municipalities; >2 M inhabitants
Caveat
Sources
Organizations named in the answer
Related records
- Absence of a general water law and national extraction fee
- Right to drill a well and ownership of the water (Civil Code)
- Industrial self-supply and the 2,000 wells of Guatemala's valley
- Procedure to drill an industrial well in the metropolitan area
- Cost and regulation of the municipal well-drilling license
- MARN environmental license costs and categories
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