Santo Domingo East It is the municipality of the Santo Domingo province where the drought that affects the country, because in some areas they have not received drinking water for 10 and up to 20 days, due to the drop in the intake of the Barrera de Salinidad aqueduct.
Of six pumps that the aqueduct system has, only three are operating, due to the low flow of the Ozama River. In some places the pressure is very low and does not allow municipalities to be supplied even with the suction of calls “robber bombs”
Dominga Reynosoa resident of the 4694 block of Invivienda Santo Domingo, said that there has been no water in the area for 10 days, which has disrupted the lives of them and their neighbors.
“Everything has been used up, the little pots of water that I had stored were used up and there is no one to ask for a can of water because we are all the same,” he said.
Virginia López, resident in the sector of Mendoza reported that the water is sent on Tuesdays and Saturdays, but that they have not received the liquid for two weeks. “There are people who have said that they have had no water for about a month”indicated
In the Amalia urbanizationalso in Santo Domingo Eastthe water has not arrived through the pipes for around 22 days, according to what Margarita Garrido reported, who appealed to Free Daily so that the authorities know your situation.
However, in Los Mina Norte the service is normal. In sectors like The Poppy, San Antonio, John Paul II, Cancino, Vietnam and others, the water service has not yet been severely affected by the droughtalthough sometimes they do not receive the usual hours.
Edwin Pichardo, a resident of Villa Faro, maintained that they have not had water for three days and that the reserve of the water tanks is running out, for which reason he requested the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewerage Corporation (CAASD) send the liquid.
The National District
In it National District has not felt the drought in the water supply. On a tour of neighborhoods in the city, people reported that they receive the liquid in a normal way.
In La Cienaga and Guachupita They reported that they are receiving water three days a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Same in Mary Help of Christians. In Gualey they receive water every day, except Thursdays.
Alex Mateo, from the Gualey neighborhood, said that “thank God” they have water normally and only on Tuesdays and Saturdays do they change the hours after 5:00 in the afternoon, but it always arrives.
Jesús Ascencio, from the 24 de Abril neighborhood, assured that they receive water permanently and that, until now, they have not been affected by the drought.
In the Luperón expansion, Lucrecia Ayala said that she has not felt any difference with the water, because until now they receive it two days a week, Tuesday and Thursday.
Nor in Brisas del Isabela, on Máximo Gómez, near the bridge that connects Santo Domingo Norte. There the water arrives every day at 7:00 in the morning and two days a week they leave it all day.
In Santo Domingo Norte there are not many complaints about the lack of water, except in neighborhoods where traditionally there is no water through the pipes. Juana Blanco, from Primaveral reported that they receive water as usual.
