A pestilential river runs this Friday through the entire Jovellar street, in Centro Habana. If you continue upstream, the source is seen at number 62, where it bursts out of the door as if a pipe had burst.
The black waters slide for several blocks, until Soledad, where it turns to the right and almost reaches San Lázaro, widening on its way. The stinking route passes in front of the Joaquín Albarrán polyclinic.
Asked for the reason for this disaster, the neighbors point out: “Look at the drains, they are all clogged.”
At the edge of the waves of filth, full of human feces, other objects are dragged, such as paper or plastic water bottles. In a bend between the street and the sidewalk, a rat splashes in the puddle that has formed.
The residents of the area have denounced to the authorities of their municipality that they frequently suffer intestinal problems derived from the contamination of the waters and the lack of cleanliness. Earlier this month, an entire building in the immediate vicinity fell ill for several days.
“I went to the doctor’s office and they told me that the Government, that Hygiene and Epidemiology are aware of the situation, and that they do not recommend using tap or boiled water,” a neighbor told this newspaper. “We spend our lives hauling bottled water now. And all because of the contamination of the cistern, because that sewage is filtered, but no matter how hard we ask, they don’t fix the drainage pipes.”
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