Residents of the sector Cancino Insidein the Santo Domingo Este municipality, reported that they have not received drinking water for the pipeswhich forces those who have cisterns to buy from trucks private.
They explained that a little has reached one area, but without pressure, but that more than six neighborhoods they do not receive the liquid without the Aqueduct Corporation and Sewerage of Santo Domingo (Caasd) report the cause.
Agustina Beltré, a community member, reported that those who have tank They are dry and that some can buy trucks between 700 and 1,200 pesos. He stated that they are going through many difficulties due to the lack of liquid.
“Cancino Inside is suffering from waterwe don’t have enough to cook, wash and bathe and we have the cisterns dry. It hasn’t arrived for almost three weeks. water“, said.
Mary de Jesús is one of the few residents who has tank and the little bit that it has is administered so that it does not remain dry.
“When there is no water, there is no happiness because when you get up the first thing you do is solve it with water and if not, we are toast”Community
He stated that it is not known why the shortage If not long ago the authorities of the Caasd they placed new pipes and during the campaign it was said that they would have a good service.
Celeste Vásquez, community leader of Cancino Insidesaid that they have not received more than a month water in homes, because the problem is that there are negotiation with the truckers who sell water who do business when there is no supply of the Caasd.
He reported that during the government of Hipólito Mejía they placed pipes and they had the servicebut a few months later they no longer had them and in the current government they reinstalled pipelineyes, but they cannot count on the service on a regular basis.
- “There was water in abundance, one or two days a week and cisterns They were full, but we no longer have any and we are already tired. They came from the Caasd and they told us that the person in charge of the area is out of the country due to health problems,” he indicated.
Teo Mota considered the situation what they are going through shortage of the liquid that sometimes arrives on a Friday or Saturday and that sometimes, like now, they have up to a month without receiving water.
“It is a chaos that we have here in Cancino Inside with the waterThe truth is that we need solution because we don’t have it. I have lived here for around 25 years and the water It’s been here for about a year and the one they send us doesn’t even work to lower the bathrooms,” he said.
He called the authorities of the Caasd to take into account the situation of hundreds of families that integrate the different neighborhoods of Cancino Inside who do not receive the service that that institution must provide.
They ask to pave streets
Another of the problems mentioned by the residents of Cancino Inside is the one of the streets that are in terrible conditions conditions and they demanded mayor Dío Astacio to start a plan asphaltedThey specified that some roads have sidewalks and curbs that only require the asphalted.
