The Colombian Orinoco Basin, which includes the Casanare, contains about one third of the country’s water reserves.

He added that the damn is being built mainly to generate electricity, not to store water.

The province has a theoretical reserved hydropower capacity of 10.73 million KW and a practical capacity of 6.66 million KW, of which 60 percent has been harnessed.

These conditions rapidly over-taxed sanitation facilities which in turn threatened to pollute the water supply and to cause epidemics.

This performance is attributable to massive water reserves as well as to the government’s energy policy and Québec engineering.