SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The host of water The water supply from the South Basin collapsed on Sunday, depriving several municipalities in Havana of this vital liquid.
According to the information Provided by the company Aguas de La Habana, a blackout that occurred on Sunday afternoon in the 110,000 V transmission lines that feed the well field of the Cuenca Sur supply source, suddenly caused a total interruption of water pumping.
This caused several water hammers in the main pipeline of the fountain and caused it to collapse in three places.
Due to the failuresince 7:25 pm, pumping from that source of supply was interrupted and the water service in the municipalities of Centro Habana and Habana Vieja was affected.
The Plaza de la Revolución municipality was left without water since 3:00 am, except for the area of the Loma del Príncipe Hospitals, and the same happened in the Cerro municipality, in the Casino, Santa Catalina, Palatino, Las Cañas, Martí and Cepero Bonilla neighborhoods.
In the municipality of October 10, the Santos Suárez neighborhood and part of Sevillano were affected, and in the municipality of Boyeros, the Embill, Ciudad de la Construcción, Río Cristal neighborhoods and part of Alta Habana.
“The repair and maintenance teams of Large Conductors work uninterruptedly with the aim of repairing the faults in the shortest possible time at the source of supply,” the note said.
The repair work was completed on Monday afternoon. However, they said they had to wait for the water to arrive at the Palatino junction, where the service to the municipalities of Old Havana and Central Havana is concentrated in the areas of Dragones and Cayo Hueso.
“Services will continue as usual afterward,” they said.
In April a pipeline of the water conduction network of the South Basin collapsed and also left a large part of the Havana population without water.
Another power outage caused the main 78-inch pipeline to break down in the source of supply in the South Basin of Havana, a coastal aquifer from which the vital liquid for the population is extracted.
Thus, he deprived himself of the water to residents of the Plaza de la Revolución municipality; also in the Martí, Cepero Bonilla, Casino Deportivo, Santa Catalina, Palatino, Las Cañas, Atarés Popular Council and part of the Latin American Council neighborhoods, in the Cerro municipality.
The Santos Suárez district and part of Sevillano in the municipality of 10 de Octubre and others were also affected.
The population affected by the intermittent water supply has previously reached 200,000 people. Due to Criticism from the capital’s residents And frustration over persistent water problems, which are often exacerbated in the summer by high temperatures, has led authorities to provide almost daily reports on the situation.
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