Havana/The situation of the sewerage, the nth pending subject in the almost seven decades of regime, was expressed in numbers during the Annual balance of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources. Only 37% of Cubans are connected to a pipe drain system, while 61% resort to domestic graves and latrines. The remaining percentage does not even have that.
These are 173,000 people who do not have how to get rid of their sewage, both “residual” and “excreta.” No high position of the institute – whose meeting reviewed Granma With hermetic prose – he said how the problem will be solved, but measures were requested for the “indisciplined” who tarnish in one way or another the “achievements” of 2024, these are listed in detail by the Diario of the Communist Party.
Strictly speaking, the Institute can only boast the work of a single company: the waste treatment system located in Casablanca, Havana, which serves to clean up the graves of some capital neighborhoods. However, the deputy director of the entity alleged, the “indiscipline of the population” led to a “poor management” in their work.
“In several places you remove accumulated garbage and in a matter of minutes the sewerage system begins to work”
They, of course, allude to the avalanche of garbage that takes place every time Havana is flooded – during rains or cyclones -, of which they blame the population directly. “In several places you remove accumulated garbage and in a matter of minutes the sewerage system begins to work,” they claimed.
The causes of the garbage crisis – in large part of the inefficient communal services of the country – have been admitted even by the official press, but, at the institute meeting, managers disregard any government responsibility. They speak, however, of the “lack of systematic sweep”, but without pointing to any institution, and list the objects that float or struggle in the tubes: “tires, wet towels, fats, refrigerators, batteries, car crankshafts, pig waste …”
The Havana – especially in La Lisa, Centro Habana, Cerro, Ten de Octubre, Plaza de la Revolución and Playa – also steal in a “recurring” way the grids of tragant and the records of records, two metal elements that are part of the historical sewerage and in which it is difficult to see some date after 1959.
Havaneros steal “tragant grilles and record covers” recurrent “
The tapas, which in many places on the island proudly look the names of the authorities or the aqueduct that installed them in the Republic, have been losing years: in their place there are gaps that must be marked with a signal, so that vehicles or passersby do not rush into them.
A recent case that exemplifies the danger of the absence of tapas is that of the child Jonathan Oliva. 11 years old, the child was sucked by a tragar last February, during the floods in Havana, and his body was found days later.
The lack of water supply suffered throughout the country and the omnipresent landfills have created a vicious circle, which exceeds specific tragedies such as Oliva to become a daily drama. Rivers in which the garbage floats every day, as in Guanabacoaor people who have made diving In waste a trade are part of a multisystemic problem.
Agrobled by the situation and before government institutions that blame them for each aspect of the crisis, Havana have not stopped denouncing those responsible. Some have underlined the absurdity of a situation that affects the lives of thousands of Cubans and, instead of lamenting, they have resorted to humor to make fun of the inaction of the authorities.
This is the case of Tiktoker and humorist Eddy Ceballos, whose Desingvenry Chanel It has become a phenomenon on the Internet. Imitating the voice in OFF Cartonated of former Cuban programs such as the other geography or well -known natural documentaries, Ceballos travels Havana criticizing the lack of maintenance of Cuban pipes.
The young man is proposed in each of his programs to reach the “Core of the destruction” hydraulic, describes the “high hollow concentration of a river type” – backed with salideos – suffered by the capital, the “bubbling waters waterfalls” next to the garbage dumps and the multiple “aquifer endohuecos” with those who stumble cars, bikes and pedestrians.
