Each heavy rain and river rise in Ñeembucú brings the same scene: flooded roads and farms, compromised production, and complaints that arrive only after the damage is done, reports ABC Color. The opinion piece argues that the problem is not unpredictable but stems from a lack of preventive planning in clearing the department's main watercourses.
Farmers, ranchers, and merchants have for years urged intervention in strategic streams such as Las Hermanas, Montuoso, Yacaré, and others that flow into the Paraguay River. Notes submitted to departmental and national authorities accumulate, but results remain absent, the outlet notes. The issue, it says, is not a shortage of warnings but the limited capacity for anticipation among those responsible.
Governor Víctor Hugo Fornerón (ANR) states that available machinery is working where producers request intervention and argues that resources are insufficient. He also mentions a lack of amphibious backhoes in the country and notes that the Ñeembucú Government operates the only such unit. However, ABC Color observes that this explanation opens a deeper discussion: if the problem is known and recurring, planning should have begun much earlier.
From the productive sector, critics suggest that actions could have been coordinated with the Yacyretá or Itaipú binational entities, as well as exploring cooperation with private companies active in the department. The criticism, the article emphasizes, is not limited to machinery availability but to the absence of a coordinated strategy to face an annual threat.
The producers' critique carries weight because they sustain much of the regional economy, the outlet adds. The sector demands foresight, not emergency solutions after the water has advanced. Cleaning canals and watercourses should be a permanent territorial maintenance policy, not a delayed reaction.
Ñeembucú has historically lived with water, ABC Color concludes. Managing the territory means understanding that prevention cannot depend on urgency. As long as decisions come after each storm, the cost will continue to fall on production, commerce, and communities facing consequences that could have been mitigated.