President Leonel Fernández created a government committee to resolve the differences between the Ministry of Public Works and the Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidraulicos, the department in charge of river resources. The organizations have different views on extracting construction materials from Dominican rivers. In addition to these two departments, also on the committee is the Instituto Nacional de Aguas Potables y Alcantarillado and the Ministry of Tourism and the Department of Mining. The extraction of construction materials from Dominican rivers has accelerated the decline of these. Press reports carried the differences between Minister of Public Works, engineer Diandino Peña and the director of Indrhi, engineer Mariano Germán Mejía over the authorization for the extraction of materials. Engineer Mariano German Mejía said that the different government organizations will work together to preserve the nation’s natural resources.
