Parts of three provinces have a week without water

Various sectors and communities in the provinces of Barahona, Bahoruco and Independencia, have a week without the service of safe drinking water for bathing, preparing food for the family, and perform other chores domestic.

The situation around the water scarcity due to a malfunction with the engines of the Regional southwestern aqueduct (ASURO), which is why hundreds of families in the three provinces of the region Enriquillo, suffering from serious disorder for this inconvenience.

The engineer Felipe Sisa, responsible for el Al Southwest Regional aqueduct, confirmed that Asuro engines are damaged from last week, but pointed out that it works quickly to standardize the service for the supply of water to the homes of the families of these three provinces.

Said that they were dismantled other engines to bring him to the province of Azua for maintenance purposes, but to be able to be installed is needed u000awith equipment heavy

This situation has forced the families, whose budget is battered by the economic crisis, to buy from merchants of the vital liquid tank of 55 gallons at prices ranging between 30 and 50 pesos.

Sectors such as Villa Stela, multi-family, Alto Velo, flowers, Cambodia, El Puente, Pueblo Nuevo, among others, are the sectors with greater drama undergoing the scarcity that is recorded of water, which are directly dependent on the regional aqueduct Asuro.

However, in districts of the lower part is less the difficulty, since they depend on the San Rafael-Barahona aqueduct, as well as which comes from the community La Guázara.

Buckets on their heads
Meanwhile, families of the various sectors and communities in this province, as well as Bahoruco and independence, said to expect that the authorities of the regional aqueduct Asuro resolved the situation to the greater brevity.

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