MOP protects groundwater from the Toltén Alto Nuevo aquifer in Villarrica

In order to protect and conserve the country's groundwaters, the General Water Directorate (DGA) of the MOP has the power to issue restrictive area declarations for certain Hydrogeological Sectors of Common Utilization (SHAC) or aquifers, and thus to avoid overexploitation, safeguarding the rights of use of already constituted waters and limiting the constitution of new ones. Thus, the DGA declared as a restriction area the Toltén Alto Nuevo SHA…

In order to protect and conserve the country’s groundwater, the MOP’s Water Directorate General has the power to issue restrictive area declarations for certain Hydrogeological Sectors of Common Utilization (SHAC) or aquifers, and thus avoid overexploitation, safeguarding the rights to use water already constituted and limiting the constitution of new ones. Thus, the DGA declared as a restriction area the Toltén Alto Nuevo SHAC, in the commune o…