The lack of water brings Cubans upside down, from one side of the island to the other. In the neighborhood of Guatemala, in Mayarí, Holguín, dozens of residents took to the streets early Tuesday morning after spending three months without service , and in Havana, even diplomats and foreigners residing in the exclusive neighborhood of Miramar suffer from the same problem.
Illuminated only with the light of cell phones, the Mayarí protesters repeated a single cry: “Water!”, and demanded the attention of the authorities. Shortly after the start of the rally, some provincial leaders arrived to “talk” and promised solutions this week.
In the videos posted on Facebook you can see Geovanis Martin Gutierrezpresident of the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power in Mayarí, trying to reassure the crowd, who was listening in disbelief to the official’s promise to install three bombs.
The official, haltingly, assured that they had already spoken with Havana, where a hydraulic pump was being “prepared” and “is already on the move.”
This team would be ready between Wednesday and Thursday, they told Martín Gutiérrez, who asked that “it be expedited so that it could come earlier.” In the face of citizen protests, the official admitted that the official admitted that the motor cables are rewound in Matanzas and then taken to the Cuban capital.
Martín Gutiérrez clarified that it is not a team problem, but that the engines collapsed due to a power outage during “the May rains”
Families in the village had been left without water service after pumping motors broke down. On his Facebook profile, the official journalist Emilio Rodriguez Pupo He assured last Saturday that “the search continues” for solutions for the installation of a horizontal motor.
A pump was installed on Saturday, but the official channels acknowledge that it is not enough to satisfy the demand, given the low flow rate of 25 liters per second. The water deficit has been alleviated with pipes, which also fail to cover the needs of families.
However, Martín Gutiérrez clarified that it is not a team problem, but that the engines collapsed due to a power outage during “the May rains.” Even so, he promised that the pump sent from Havana will be installed, one that the provincial government is managing and another that will be on “reserve.”
The official profile Realities from Holguin published that, after the conversation with the authorities, the “locals are in their homes, doing their daily chores.” According to this source, families “already have the precious liquid within their reach.” “We told them that harmony would return, and it did,” she wrote in a post accompanied by photos of the empty streets after the rally.
Meanwhile, the capital itself also has a significant deficit in the water service that affects more than 200,000 families, the equivalent of 10% of the population.
The capital itself also has a significant deficit in the water service that affects more than 200,000 families, the equivalent of 10% of the population.
According to the official newspaper Havana Tribune, the western region benefited “very little or not at all” from the torrential rains of recent weeks. Both Havana and Cienfuegos suffer a decline in their reservoirs and are in critical condition.
Engineer Rosaura Socarraz Ordaz, Director of Operations of the Aguas de La Habana Company (EAH), explained that the most affected municipalities are Playa, Marianao and La Lisa. Families in these places received the service on alternate days for eight hours on average, but due to breakdowns in the system due to electrical discharges, the hours have been reduced.
In a meeting chaired by Vice Prime Minister Inés María Chapman, it was reported that in July it will arrive on the Island a batch of 12 pumping machines that will allow stabilizing the supply system. At the moment, community water tanks and the use of wells have been enabled.
The reactions of the users were immediate, and it shows that the problem does not discriminate between residents with resources. The user Mario Hernández, who identified himself as a worker in a real estate company that attends to embassies and commercial offices, assured in a comment to the note from Grandstand that in the Council of Miramar, in the municipality of Playa, there are not even pipes to maintain water in all the diplomatic headquarters.
In addition to reducing service hours, the pressure level has been lowered, so the cisterns are not even half full. “It has caused the claims to have already started,” said the man, who announced that those in charge of the embassies plan to send the official complaint to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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