Desperate are residents of the periphery of the municipality of Nindirí, in Masaya, where the drinking water service has been interrupted for several weeks and the water carrier continues without solving the problem. “We can be without light, but without water it is impossible,” they claimed.
The citizens regretted that every year the shortage of drinking water service is a problem that worsens in these communities, causing an unequal distribution of the liquid, among all the regions that make up the municipality.
«We have almost a month without drinking water, it does not go up in the pipe. We were mediating with the pipe (which) once passed through here, but previously we have been buying the water (since) here the water does not come to us at all (…) we suffer from thirst, “denounced a resident of the El Raizón region.
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The citizen describes that this situation worsens every year, especially in the summer season, which continues to be neglected by the state-owned Nicaraguan Water and Sewerage Company (Enacal), which never fails to charge for its service.
«Here there are five houses (one family) that do not have water, but the receipt is not missing even though we do not have the service. Here no authority visits us to know the need we have, “complained another citizen.
Buying water is “extra expense”
Another resident, who is also concerned about the drinking water situation in this region of Nindirí, affirmed that the families have chosen to buy barrels of water at 350 and 400 córdobas. For the citizen, the purchase of the liquid is a cost that is added to his “hit pocket”, who must also pay for the payment of the Enacal bill that arrives every month, even if they do not receive water.
«Everyone is buying water at 400 pesos, money that could be used for food; Say that there are two trips a week, it’s already 800 córdobas. The church that I go to, we have had no water for two months at all, a very difficult situation that is taking place,” said a young man.
A mother of a family, who also survives from a grocery store in her house, narrated that every day she gets up a half-filled barrel of water in the early hours of the morning, when a meager stream of water barely manages to rise, however, she assures that It’s not enough to do your daily chores around the house.
«Cooking, washing, cleaning, bathing, water is needed for everything. Here the problem of water has always been, and instead of getting better, it gets worse. Last year, more water went up, but the receipts are always on point,” he said.
A letter to the mayoress to solve with pipes
A public official from this municipality said that the Nindirí Fire Department offers drinking water service for a price of 1,300 córdobas per cistern. The cistern contains an average of 30 barrels of water, which are distributed in a single point, since they do not offer house-to-house service.
It also revealed that the population could approach the “political secretaries” of the community to ask the re-elected Sandinista mayor, Clarissa Vivas, to expedite the process of sending a pipe with water. Or, the community could organize to write a letter “to Dr. Clarissa” stating the need for her to help with fuel.
“They can make groups and write a letter addressed to her (the mayoress) so that they can bring them a water pipe,” he proposed.
By United Voices
