Venezuelan Crisis: Guri dam at 12 meters from critical level

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"The level of Guri hydroelectric dam were found on Monday morning at 252.54 above sea level, that is 15 centimeters of decline despite government measures, Argenis Carvajal, operations monitor at the dam, reported.

"Should we have not taken any measures, we would be undoubtedly one and a half meter below the present dam level and would be declining 20-22 centimeters on average," Carvajal explained.

He said that the dam was generating "approximately 5,000 MW on average and pumping from 4,700 to 4,800 cubic meters per second." "

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Note: This is a report as of Monday. The consumption rate should be about the same in the last few days, therefore, at 15 cm per day, we're 83 days from collapse day. I assume the government will wake up one of these days and take real measures to cut back on power consumption.