The Mayor of Quilmes on leave and current provincial deputy, Mayra Mendoza, participated in Niteroi, Brazil, in a meeting of the Mercocities Network and CAF to manage financing for hydraulic works in the San Francisco-Las Piedras stream basin. The event brought together regional local authorities to analyze innovative cooperation and international financing mechanisms for local governments, in a meeting organized by the Permanent Technical Secretariat, the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of Institutional Relations of Mercocities together with CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and its BiodiverCities Network. Mendoza attended accompanied by the Chief of Staff of Quilmes, Joaquín Desmery, and presented on the management experience linked to the EcoPark and the need for financing for the Hydraulic, Social and Environmental Plan in the San Francisco and Las Piedras Streams Basin, which also involves the municipalities of Florencio Varela, Almirante Brown, Avellaneda and Presidente Perón. "We came to tell our management experience about the construction and operation of the EcoPark and to explain the need for financing for a historical demand of the Buenos Aires conurbation: the Hydraulic, Social and Environmental Plan in the San Francisco and Las Piedras Streams Basin," stated the leader. In this context, the provincial deputy explained that in 2024 the Buenos Aires Legislature approved the creation of the San Francisco-Las Piedras Hydraulic Basin Committee, in charge of projecting the necessary works to execute the hydraulic plan. "This basin directly affects the lives of millions of people, who await the works to live peacefully and without fear of flooding with every rain. It took us years to develop the studies to find a definitive solution to the overflows."
