Santo Domingo.- More than a million users do not have drinking water in the Dominican Republic due to the effects of Storm Melissa on dozens of aqueducts, the Emergency Operations Center (COE) reported this Friday, which also reported the displacement of hundreds of people and flooding in various parts of the country.
The National Institute of Drinking Water and Sewage (Inapa) registers 610,693 users without water, while the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Caasd) reports 404,978, for a total of 1,015,671 people without the service.
In its report this Friday on the situation caused by Melissa, the COE reported that 915 people had to leave their homes due to the rains, which have affected 183 homes.
In addition, the rainfall keeps 19 towns throughout the country isolated, whose Government keeps the working day suspended in the twelve provinces on red alert, and teaching throughout the national territory.
According to the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet), Storm Melissa, the thirteenth of the current hurricane season, is located approximately 445 kilometers southwest of Port-au-Prince (Haiti) and 260 kilometers south/southeast of Kingston (Jamaica).
Currently, this system is stationary, that is, it has no translational movement. It has maximum sustained winds of about 75 kilometers per hour with higher gusts and a gradual strengthening is forecast in the following days.
