Empty Jugs and Dry Reservoirs: Inside Puerto Rico’s Worsening Water Emergency
Drought and aging infrastructure have left more than 3 million people facing outages, while the National Guard delivers water by truck.
- On Friday, residents of San Juan and nearby communities completed their third full week on mandatory water rationing schedules, intensifying Puerto Rico's ongoing water emergency.
- Severe drought combined with aging infrastructure caused the crisis, particularly recent ruptures in the 72-inch Superaqueduct pipeline carrying potable water 50 miles to San Juan's metro area.
- Residents face daily struggles with bucket baths and bottled water, while the group Exigimos Agua tracked more than 200 days without water this year.
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture approved a drought disaster declaration for 26 municipalities on Wednesday, while the Puerto Rico National Guard distributes potable water via cistern trucks.
- Below-Normal rainfall could persist until next year, warns hydrologist Emanuel Rodriguez of the National Weather Service, after San Juan recorded its driest month in more than 120 years in July.
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By Ray Sánchez and Isabel Rosales, CNN. Milagros Pica Quiñones's small concrete house is a chaotic jumble of bottles, paint buckets, bleach, and detergent jugs. This 96-year-old grandmother, a resident of Loíza, an impoverished coastal town in northeastern Puerto Rico, watches as only a trickle of water flows from her tank. The post This is what the growing water crisis in Puerto Rico looks like: empty jugs and dry tanks appeared first on KVIA.
Empty jugs and dry reservoirs: Inside Puerto Rico’s worsening water emergency
By Ray Sanchez, Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — Milagros Pica Quiñones’ small concrete home is an untamed menagerie of bottles, paint buckets, bleach and laundry detergent jugs. The 96-year-old grandmother in the impoverished oceanfront town of Loiza, in Puerto Rico’s northeast, sees “the thinnest thread of water” trickling from her faucet most days before service
In the face of drought, the authorities declared a state of emergency, but Puerto Ricans have been living with water shortages for too long.
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