The official press denounces the situation of a neighborhood where water has not arrived for three years

Havana/Three years have not been water from the neighborhood of Jesús María, in Sancti Spíritus without water. The complaint, this time, does not consign it, as usual in Cuba, anonymous users in social networks or independent media, but the official newspaper Escambraythis Friday. In his Video news, Visionsshows how one of his reporters, Elsa Ramos, visited the place, which he had already gone six months ago, and found that the situation was the same: the service still does not arrive.

One of the neighbors interviewed explained to the journalist the strategies they had to get water. “We are going to put the turbine now, we put the cables and the hose and there a man lends us a Plumita There, we connect the turbine there and there we take the water, ”he said. “Because this block, from this corner to glory, about three years or four that nobody here takes a drop of water.”

Another of the residents corroborated: “More than three years ago that water does not enter here”, without explaining the reason: “It is not possible for this pipe here to have water, that of there has water, all the pipes of the block have Water and that this piece does not have water, I don’t know how that is, it makes no sense. ”

“Since the distribution was made 26, the part of the neighborhood was greatly affected”

A third inhabitant wielded: “Since the distribution was made 26, the part of the neighborhood was greatly affected.” At its door it has water – “it is a small stream, with little force, but hopefully, it is not missing,” the reporter found – but that made other neighbors “at dawn and every time” to fill containers.

In his report, Elsa Ramos confronts even “the representation of the government”, personified in Ariel Muñoz Hidalgo, Viceintendent of Transportation and Energy of Sancti Spíritus, and Yusmeiky Mendoza Muro, director of the state company Aqueduct and sewerage of the same city.

Asked about the cause that some parts of the neighborhood have water and others not, Muñoz Hidalgo points out the “increase in illegal connections continuously to hydraulic networks. ” The reporter points out: “illegal connections because they do not have water”, to which the official nodded and added: “because they have no water or because they have made new constructions.”

Thus, he attributes much of the problem to the increase of the population “without a projection, without an increase also of hydraulic systems.” The viceintendent assured that they have a pumping system “with new pumps, with good water distribution capabilities”, but that “one hundred percent” could not be used for, exposed again, the salideos, which prevent good pressure To all places.

The reporter insists on asking why a segment in the heart of Jesus Maria does not have water while surrounding streets yes. The official responds that the street to which Guillermon Moncada is illegal because it is not approved to be done but people do it in search of the benefit of the resource. ”

When the journalist asks YusmeiIKy Mendoza Muro if aqueduct has a solution and what term, the person in charge of the company recognizes: “No.” Between him and the municipal viceintendent they listed: they have a deficit of hoses, materials, fuel and personnel. “Plomeros almost doesn’t have,” said Mendoza Muro.

Cover the salider and repair the tanks on the houses are the next solutions that Muñoz Hidalgo promises, but, at the same time, it warns that the panorama will get worse in the coming months. “At this stage we have to tell us that we are much more complex because we are already going for the drought season,” said the official, who explained that there are areas that are supplied with the Yayabo River, “that all its flow capacity goes down ”

Since the beginning of February, continued, they will activate the confrontation groups to the drought and develop a calendar of water distribution in pipes. At that time, Elsa Ramos reproaches him that, according to the settlers, the pipes do not meet the delivery schedules. “That will always be dependent on the amount of fuel we have, the availability of pipes we have, the neighborhoods that are increasing,” said Muñoz Hidalgo.

“In order not to create false expectations, will this segment of Jesus Maria be thirsty?” Inquired, incisive, the journalist. In spite of the entire disaster listed previously, the director of aqueduct responded resounding: “No, no, no.” Ramos retended: “When can the thirst be calmed, we talk about months, years, centuries?”, And the official replied: “No, no, months”, to which the reporter apostilled that he would return within a while To check the advances.

Right there, on the roof of a house, the woman did not miss to point out “the contradiction” that the water tank on a neighboring roof was driving drinking water. The officials responded quietly: “That is for the indisciplines.”