Water business moves RD$ 4,000 MM annually

posted on: Jan 10 2012 7:36 by RDugey. Viewed 19 times.

In the country, there are approximately five hundred drinking water processing companies, of which only 200 are certified by the Ministry of public health and the General Directorate of standards and quality systems (Digenor).

Reported that the President of Adeagua, David Toribio, registered firms produce nearly 500 million gallons of water a year, generating around RD$ 4,000 million.

The business leader pointed out that domestic water demand is completely covered by the production of the country.

He also argued that industry, which has increased by 5% in the last five years, generates more than 9,000 direct jobs and 100,000 indirect.

Toribio

reported that they must have a record of land use which gives the Ministry of environment and natural resources; to legally operate the processing companies a commercial registration issued by the Chamber of trade and production and subject to the u000aMinistry of public health plans construccción and a flow diagram of the teams to get the corresponding health registry. Also requires an inspection of Digenor that certifies the quality of product end.

The employer argued that we need greater rigidity of the authorities in the provision of health care records and stressed the importance of the updating of the regulation of risk of food and beverages, which is in its final phase and aims to improve the debugging permissions.

Toribio pointed out that the country is difficult to carry out the supervision to ensure the safety of water because law enforcement agencies do not have the economic and human resources to exhaust the procedures required.

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The President of the Dominican Association of water bottling (Adeagua), David Toribio, highlighted the low investment required to offer a very affordable product u000alike water, lack of supervision of the authorities and low economic levels of a large segment of consumers has led to the proliferation of a large number of clandestine companies, that do not meet the quality standards or the sanitary registrations required for its operation.