Havana/The recent rains that wreaked havoc and even deaths in Cuba have improved the situation of the supply especially in the central and oriental provinces. However, in the West, and especially in Havana, the situation is more and more criticismto the point that, when water entered the Andrea neighborhood on Monday, in Luyanó, “people began to make a party.”
According to Havanera to 14ymediohis situation has not been one of the worst. When he believed he would have to go out to buy water at least to drink, “he started arriving in the pile, with little force, but he arrived.” In their neighborhood, he counts, everyone rushed to light the washing machines, clean the houses, fill the deposits and some even celebrated with music and alcohol drinks. “They had said that he was not going to come, but when he entered it was an event,” he says.
Others have not run the same fate, he says. “To a acquaintance of mine, who lives in Miami, had to buy a combo of water blinks so that he had to take,” he says. Although on online sales platforms accessed by emigrants, water has long been one of the products for sale, few Cubans spent their money on something that their relatives could, in better or worse conditions, get on their own. “But now the situation is different,” says Andrea.
This Monday the government of the capital announced that next Wednesday the service will suspend throughout the day
This Monday the Government of the Capital advertisement which next Wednesday will suspend throughout the day – from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm – the water service of the areas supplied by Cuenca Sur. The interruption, clarifies the statement, is due to maintenance and repairs in the drivers and electricity lines that feed the source of supply of El Gato ”and will interfere in the supply of several neighborhoods of Havana del Este, San Miguel del Padrón, El Cotorro, Rule and October 10.
“Once the maintenance and repairs work is finished, the water service will be restored gradually in its normal schedules. We hope that this necessary measure will be positively received by our population and we appreciate in advance the understanding and support of our users during the process,” he published waters of Havana.
The statement also emphasizes that thanks to these interventions the drinking water service of the capital has improved. However, many are still without supply. This Monday, the Loyola Center of the Jesuits of Havana announced that it suspended its activities for the rest of this week because “it is currently not entering street water.” “We deeply regret not being able to provide the usual service to our: 225 older adults, 175 children and adolescents, 125 women in vulnerability and other external groups that benefit from our spaces.”
In the Cuban television news, Hydraulic Resources themselves have lamented the Habanera situationwhere more than 350,000 residents have the affected service. As they clarified, pipes have been sent to the areas without service and new pumping equipment has even been installed, but the improvement fails to alleviate the crisis. One of the main problems, one of the workers complained, are the “sudden electric discharges” caused by the stream of the current, which damages teams of great importance and prevents the supply.
Pipas have been sent to the areas without service and new pumping equipment has even been installed, but the improvement fails to alleviate the crisis
As for the rest of the country, the official press has reported the state of the reservoirs, which managed to rise in volume with the latest rains. In Sancti Spíritus, he published Escambraythe extreme drought suffered by the Tuinucú dam and the contaminated water that came out of it in recent weeks caused obstructions in the pipes.
Therefore, aqueduct suspended the service for “more than two days.” “Such an affectation demanded hard working days to clean the entire hydraulic system, from the pumping station itself to the elevated tanks of the Hatuey Rancho area, an action that included the drainage of several kilometers of the conductor, first, and, later, the washing of them with the help of the high pressure cars to leave the network free of sediment,” said the medium.
In Camagüey The news is more encouraging. The reservoirs of the province are 50% filling after spending a summer in minimums. However, the 168 million cubic liters seem little to face the months of drought that are coming and the authorities hope that, before the cyclonic season ends, it rains a little more. Especially for deposits destined only to agriculture and other economic activities, which are more depressed, at 28%.
The same concern have hydraulic resource managers in Santiago de Cubaone of the provinces that the summer lived worse due to dry. The rains, also in this territory, relieved the situation, but now the anguish is because of the arrival of winter. A “logical distribution” of water must be made, Santiago authorities said, because the rains do not compensate the few rainfall of previous months.
