Florida, June 25 – Two new wells will be drilled in areas near the southern coast of the municipality of Florida to monitor the quality of groundwater and especially the salinity levels in that area threatened by the rising sea level, a phenomenon more and more palpable as a result of global warming caused by environmental pollution.
In compliance with one of the objectives of the international project Mi Costa, specialists of the Provincial Company of Hydraulic Development identified a site in the San Antonio popular council, and another was located on the road to Playa Florida, in order to increase surveillance of the quality of groundwater in view of the advance of saline intrusion in that area of southern Florida.
According to Martha Suárez, a specialist of the aforementioned hydraulic entity, a station will be installed next to the well to be drilled in the San Antonio popular council to automate the water monitoring process, which will allow remote access in real time to the measurements obtained in this rural area near the Floridian coast, one of the most vulnerable to climate change in the southern part of the country.
The new wells to be drilled in the municipality would be the second and third of their kind, as in 2019 one was drilled in the town of Los Güines, where the quality of groundwater and the salinity index in that area increasingly affected by rising sea levels, the main threat that focuses the attention of the Mi Costa Project in Florida, an environmental initiative aimed at strengthening coastal resilience in the face of climate change.
