After three years with leaks that lost up to 60 liters per second, Node 24, as the interconnection point of the supply network in the city of Sancti Spíritus is known, is finally being repaired. The work is planned to be resolved in just two days despite the fact that it has been classified as “capital” by the authorities.
The intervention should have been carried out years ago, although it was announced for this July and finally occurred in November because other breaks in the hydraulic network compromised the arrangements, according to the publication local press. Now, the authorities have affirmed that “all the necessary resources are already in the province” to seal the breaks.
It is not the first time that at Node 24, located on First Street of the Kilo-12 district, repairs are made, although always superficial, acknowledge the Aqueduct and Hydraulic Resources officials. The “technical state of this system has worsened” and requires a major repair –for which the workers have had to work night shifts– “considered highly complex and which will be developed without interruption to improve the supply to some peripheral areas and highest in the city. “
“Every time you passed by First Street, you saw a large stream of water, it seemed like a waterfall. Too long they spent to fix that break,” he tells 14ymedio a neighbor of Kilo-12. “This line that is being repaired travels throughout the city and it has been more than two years that it was going to be fixed but another break that left us without water for a week prevented maintenance,” he recalls. “Then the pandemic arrived and it was postponed.”
Despite the speed with which the Government intends to undertake the great work, for the residents it is an eternal time, since they have not been guaranteed supply by tanker trucks. 70% of the city’s residents will not have this alternative, which will only reach health care units and other centers classified as essential.
Most of the residents, who have been without service for more than 24 hours, had to store water and those who do not have many containers or tanks have to buy the liquid from individuals to do their housework.
“The Government has not developed a strategy for this interruption,” complains Yuli, a neighbor in the area who, like hundreds of people from Spiritus, must buy drinking water from people who have wells in their homes and sell for 100 pesos a gallon of 55 liters.
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