The Villa Clara Police discovered 13 illegal connections and nine leaks in the Hanabanilla conductor, a 25-kilometer system of pipes that supplies water to a large part of the island’s central provinces. The peasants in the area had practiced multiple “punctures.” to divert the liquid towards their agricultural plantations.
The Hanabanilla pipeline –which takes its name from the reservoir that feeds it in the Villa Clara municipality of Manicaragua– runs from Jíbaro, in Sancti Spíritus, to Zapatero, in Villa Clara. The greatest damage occurred, according to the official newspaper Vanguardbetween the towns of Porvenir and Biajaca, where the drainage left 10,000 people in various towns such as Mataguá, La Yaya and Jorobada without water supply, the suction cup screws
To carry out the connections, screws with suction cups were removed from the pipes and networks were connected that, according to the investigation of the Aqueduct and Sewerage services, led to the crops of local peasants.
The authorities will apply sanctions to those involved and promised to carry out a “program to suppress leaks”, which are also common in the driver
The authorities will apply sanctions to those involved and promised to carry out a “program to suppress leaks”, which are also common in the driver. The official press also denounces that these water thefts also occur at the Paso Bonito-Barajagua pumping station, in Cienfuegos, but affirms that the Villa Clara Police “does not have jurisdiction to act” there and that it has already reported to the neighboring province to “undertake similar measures”.
According to Vanguard, the authorities have spent months trying to contain the illegalities in the area. They assure that they have renewed the electrical panels that generate the pumping capacity in Hanabanilla, but that the illegal drainage decreases the pressure of the network and makes it impossible to supply the area.
The newspaper also points out the population density of the territory and says that, despite this circumstance, the Police will visit “house by house” as part of a raid against offenders. It is, he affirms, an “official warning” that should be a matter of interest to the residents of Manicaragua and that, “in case of repeat offences,” the fines and sanctions will increase.
The consequence of the loss of water in the area – in the midst of a drought that has affected, above all, the central-eastern part of the country – has been a spike in the cost of water pipes, for which large quantities are needed. of fuel often impossible to obtain, due to the “energy contingency”.
The illegalities, the cost of getting water to remote and mountainous communities, and the incompetence of the Cuban Hydraulic Resources companies did not figure, however, in the report. speech offered this Thursday at the United Nations Conference on Water by Cuban Vice President Inés María Chapman.
The ruler dedicated her address to celebrating the management of the regime and regretting that due to the blocking of the United States, the Island was not capable of having better results
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