Residents say that water supply problems increased with the construction of Tower K.
Madrid, Spain.- What for decades was one of the best preserved areas of the Cuban capital, today is mired in the same dirt and precariousness as the rest of the country. The surroundings of the United States Embassy, in the middle of Vedado Habanero, are surrounded by improvised landfills And they live a water crisis that keeps dozens of families without supply for weeks.
In recordings obtained by Cubanet Montones of accumulated garbage are observed during days and neighbors carrying cubes from water pipes to stock up in their homes. A scene that, according to residents, had never achieved such gravity in that part of the city.
“It’s amazing how the Vedado is. I am born in the Popular Rampa Council and never, or in the special period, the veiled so dirty was seen, with such unhealthiness and with this tremendous shortage of water. The veiled is a shame,” he told Cubanet A neighbor of the area.
Residents point out that LA crisis in the water supply coincides with the works of the call Tower k. “With the theme of water it is unvoyed, right now there are buildings here that a month ago does not enter a drop, in other than six days. The neighbors thought that all those trouble with the water supply began with the construction of the K tower, it is a coincidence that since they began to break to put pipes for the hotel, here in the area the scarcity of water began,” explained a neighbor.
The same resident said that the proliferation of MSMEs in the area has also multiplied the landfills: “Since the area was filled with mipymes (it does not seem badly to me), the garbage tanks are always overflowed. Just in the corner of 11 and l accumulates for days, with chicken boxes that throw there the mipymes and coffee shops and the plague is tremendous. collect the garbage ”. And he details that the head of communals of the Plaza Municipality “exploded”, for a theme of “fuel diversion, and the one that they put new does not solve anything.”
Another neighbor, visibly frustrated, said that the situation has exceeded any limit: “This no longer endures, this is not life, we are surviving, it is a daily and constant ordeal … if they cannot with the country that leave ‘pal cane’.”
A crisis that also plays the Vedado
That in Cuba there are families without water for weeks and garbage without collecting for days is not a novelty. But that this happens in the Vedado, traditionally one of the privileged areas of the capital, gives an account of the magnitude of the chaos nationwide.
For years, the Vedado remained relatively oblivious to the visible dirt in other neighborhoods of Havana. Today, however, even this nerve zone, headquarters of embassy, ministries and hotels, is dominated by unhealthiness and shortage of basic services.
