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The Palace of Running Waters (Spanish: Palacio de Aguas Corrientes) is an architecturally significant water pumping station in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the former headquarters of state-owned company Obras Sanitarias de la Nación. It is currently administered by Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos (AySA). The building, designed and completed in ...
Aguas Corrientes is a small town in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. Its name ( running waters ) is derived from the installations of pumping, filtration and purification of water from the Santa Lucia River , which is the largest in the country, supplying drinking water to the departments of Montevideo and Canelones.
OSE is the company in charge of supplying drinking water nationwide, annually producing more than 350 million m³ of drinking water, which is distributed through 15,000 km of networks throughout the country. To do this, it has 71 plants that make water drinkable, the most important of which is the Aguas Corrientes Plant, located in Canelones ...
Corrientes (Spanish pronunciation: [koˈrjentes] ⓘ; Guaraní: Taragui, literally: "Currents") is the capital city of the province of Corrientes, Argentina, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, about 1,000 km (621 mi) from Buenos Aires and 300 km (186 mi) from Posadas, on National Route 12. It has a population of 346,334 ...
Obras Sanitarias [ edit] Torre Tanque in Mar del Plata, built by OSN in 1943. On July 18, 1912, "Obras Sanitarias de la Nación" (OSN) was established by Law 8,889 as part of the first Sanitation Plan of 1909 under the presidency of Roque Sáenz Peña. OSN began to expand its area of operation, reaching cities outside Buenos Aires Province.
Argentine Water and Sanitation S.A. Argentine Water and Sanitation (Spanish: Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos, mostly known for its acronym AySA) is a state-owned company of Argentina dedicated to supplying the public with running water and sewer services. Created in 2006 after the Government of Argentina rescinded the contract with "Aguas ...
Corriente River at Esquina, Argentina. The Corriente River (Spanish, Río Corriente [1]) is a river in the Argentine province of Corrientes, in the Mesopotamia.It flows from the Itatí Lagoon, in the center-north of the province, and drains the large basin of the Iberá Wetlands, about 13,000 square kilometres (5,000 sq mi).
Among the largest water and sewer companies are Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos (AYSA) and Aguas Bonarenses S.A. (ABSA), both operating in Greater Buenos Aires, Aguas Provinciales de Santa Fe, and Aguas Cordobesas SA, all of them now publicly owned.