Havana/Earth, gusarapos, mosquito larvae and even snails have arrived in the last days of the homes of the spirit through the pipes. With minimal dams for the droughtthe aqueduct and sewerage company scrapes the bottom of the reservoirs and must have increased the chlorination of water so that it remains, as the service requires it, “potable”.
In a reportage of the news of Escambraythe local newspaper, the residents in the city came to affirm that the water even arrives with bad smell. “In my house the water, honestly, [llega] Black, ”said one of the interviewees to the newspaper. Others even explained the problems that the quality of the water has brought.“ Sometimes the vector staff goes to the house and reviews the tanks and says ‘they have bugs’ and wants to put a fine, but it is that those bichitos come in the same water, ”said a lady.
Another resident confirmed the testimony: “We have noticed in the educational institution itself in which I work even with vectors. There are times when the water is just arriving and we put it in a clean tank and there are vectors and it is very dirty.”
In the worst cases, however, the spirit said they had received a “lousy” quality water, with “gusarapos for the pipe, snails and all kinds of mosquito larvae.”
In the aqueduct and sewerage company, director Roberto Naples did not denied the claims. “There have been many publications and many are true”
In the aqueduct and sewerage company, director Roberto Naples did not denied the claims. “There have been many publications and many are true.” Complaints, he said, have forced the company to visit homes in which water is received with very poor quality, especially in the 4th cast.
The manager, however, dismissed some popular claims that ensure that the pipes have even arrived living fish. “That is uncertain. There is no alive fish that can go out for a pen (battery), it is impossible.”
“We are going through a crisis in the two sources of supply of Sancti Spíritus for drought. At the moment we have the Yayabo water treatment plant pumping only 100 liters per second of the 283 that has a maximum capacity,” explained the manager.
As for the poor water quality, he added that the company works with the Hygiene Directorate to address critical points in the city, which has the worst situation in the province, especially in the southern zone. In the header municipality, he added, “water is not distributed through wells, but by mediation of dams and rivers.” As a consequence, he explains, not growing and cleaned the rivers due to the few rainfall, the water comes dirty to the houses and “has a bad smell.”
The company is carrying out a “differentiated chemical treatment” to the water to “be able to improve the service” and increase the dose of chlorine
According to Naples, the company is doing a “differentiated chemical treatment” to the water to “be able to improve the service” and increase the dose of chlorine, something that the official warned that it is not harmful, at the current levels, for consumers.
The authorities have recognized that, for August, month of few rains, the situation is not expected to improve. Before the question of Escambray What measures the company intends to take to guarantee the supply, Naples explained that it is not a situation that is in the power of the “human being” and rather is a “theme of nature.”
If water has been distributed in tank trucks to the most critical areas, he said, but we had to resort to an extra fuel allocation by the government, because the company “has not enough fuel to support that activity.”
The official Press of Sancti Spíritus has alerted several times on the low level of water reserves in the province. In a article Posted on Thursday, Escambray He regretted that the rains of the first semester of the year had barely reached 47.7% forecast for the territory, the Sierpe being the municipality most affected by the few rainfall.
The rains of the first semester of the year barely reached 47.7% of the forecast for the territory
“At the end of Julio with few accumulated, and taking into account that historically, August also does not present important rainfall figures, the province is expected to not considerably improve its hydrological situation, so the category of severe drought in the territory must be maintained,” Yusliadys Lorenzo Coca, technical director of the Provincial Delegation of Hydraulic Resources, told the newspaper.
Among the nine reservoirs of the province, among which Zaza, the largest dam in the country, Sancti Spíritus has only 200 million cubic meters of water, just over 19% of its capacity. Seven of them, detailed the medium, are below 50%.
“When we compare the volumes stored at the same date of the previous year all reservoirs of the province have lower levels, less Higuanojo,” Lorenzo added.
The authorities avoided talking about the particular state of Zaza, which not only supplies Sancti Spíritus, but also Villa Clara, and its water is also largely destined to agriculture. Last May, The dam was below 12% Of its capacity, an even worse situation of 2024 – when the levels were also very low – registering its most critical level in the last five years.
Since then, contrary to the saying, it has rained little, so it is foreseeable that the country’s largest reservoir is only the fondage.
