Children under 8 years of age in the municipality of The Guancha They can now drink tap water again and eat food prepared with it. The northern City Council announced, just ten days after imposing this restriction, that the latest analyzes reveal a normalization of fluoride levels. The local government (PP) celebrates that the General Directorate of Public Health have communicated to Municipality of La Guancha the correction of the level of fluoride in the water of the public network, “which is once again within the recommended values established by the regulations”. After knowing these results, last Friday the 18th a restriction that had started on February 8th was lifted.
The guanchero mayor, Antonio Hernandez (PP)recalls that they had reported that “in this case the consumption restriction for children under 8 years of age was going to be something specific and for a short time, and we have already been able to confirm that the entire population can consume water from the municipality of The Guancha again, with all the sanitary guarantees».
This restriction for children under 8 years of age came almost two months after The Guancha put an end to all restrictions on the consumption of water from the public network. It was due to a “point increase” in fluoride levels, which stood at 2.2 milligrams per litre, when the recommended limit for children under this age is 1.5 milligrams per liter. Between February and December 2021, children under 8 years of age could not consume water from the public network due to excess fluoride, which for several months even forced the population of all ages to be prohibited from drinking it in this municipality of 5,540 inhabitants. After the normalization of the parameters, on December 13, 2021, the town spent almost two months without any type of limitation, which has only returned for the little ones between February 8 and 18, 2022.
Antonio Hernandez He said then that it was “something punctual, which often occurs after carrying out maintenance tasks at the treatment plant”, referring to the Brackish Water Desalination Station (EDAS) of Cruz de Tarifes. The Consistory hoped to solve the problem within “approximately a week”, and in the end it was fixed in ten days.
