The Monterrey Water and Drainage Service announced that it will strengthen water security and compliance with sanitary regulations with the launch of a new water quality laboratory. This infrastructure will allow the organization to significantly increase its operational capacity, from 300,000 to 600,000 tests per year. The new complex will be located on Concordia Avenue, in the municipality of Apodaca, and will have a total area of 12,435 square meters. The design includes about 4,000 square meters of construction that will house 35 laboratory areas, seven administrative areas, three warehouses, and specialized areas for waste and file management, ensuring safer and more efficient operating conditions. Eduardo Ortegón Williamson, director of Water and Drainage, highlighted the importance of having cutting-edge technology for a constantly growing metropolis. "Having a laboratory is worthy, having a place to carry out the important scientific processes that are carried out daily in the current laboratory, is no small thing, it is something very important and for that reason what better than to do it in facilities worthy of what a city like the Monterrey metropolitan area and a state like Nuevo León require," said the executive. Recognition of highly qualified personnel Ortegón Williamson also took the opportunity to recognize the work of highly qualified personnel, and in particular, the career of chemist Pablo Tamez Guerra, Water Quality Coordinator, whose leadership has positioned the Central Laboratory as a technical benchmark at the national and international level. The expansion of analytical capacity not only seeks to break records in the number of tests, but also to strengthen the making of operational, sanitary, and environmental decisions. Currently, the laboratory is a key piece for the permanent monitoring of the water that reaches homes, ensuring that the supply strictly complies with current regulations, whose results and processes have been recognized nationally and internationally. The new infrastructure will strengthen the making of operational, sanitary, and environmental decisions, as well as compliance with current regulations on water quality. Currently, the Central Water Quality Laboratory is a benchmark for its high technical standards and its contribution to the permanent monitoring of the water supplied to the population.
