Brigido Sanabria, mayor of the city acknowledged this morning that summer the lake Ypacarai not available for holidaymakers to bathe in it due to blue-green algae found in water can cause serious skin rashes on the skin.
Similarly, Ms. Elena Benítez General Director of Protection and Conservation of Water Resources, the Environment Secretary, after doing a check on the Lake Ypacarai in the town of San Bernardino, showed the presence of large numbers of cyanobacteria ( blue-green algae) in water.

Through the SEAM has been controlling the places where there is greater danger from the algae and the mayor announced that boundaries have already arranged for vacationers beware.

The General Directorate of Environmental Control SEAM in turn, notified the Governors of Cordillera Central, the municipalities of San Bernardino again Aregua to require compliance with the preventive measures contained in resolutions of the SEAM as warning swimmers by putting up posters and signs about the potential risks to health may generate the presence of algae in the waters of Lake Ypacarai.

It is also recalled that the rules of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) report that the toxins of these bacteria cause harmful effects on human health and allergic disease, hepatic and neurological diseases.

Several organizations are developing works to reduce pollution levels found in which at the time was the “Blue Lagoon”, but these organizations still insist that we need a greater presence of the government to address the problem more forcefully.

Finally, firefighters and police officers are guarding national visitors during the months of January and February in order to develop seasonal activities as normally as possible, said the main communal authority of San Bernardino.