The director of the Corporación del Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Santo Domingo (CAASD), the Santo Domingo potable water body, and the chief of the National Police, Major General Pedro de Jesús Candelier jointly announced that industries, hog and poultry farms and individuals that are contaminating the Ozama, Haina, Isabela and Higüero rivers have 30 days to implement preservation and conservation methods. The CAASD and the National Police, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Works and the Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos (INDRHI), the government body in charge of river resources, announced they will drastically begin to implement Decree 296-96 that prohibits the contaminating of rivers with toxic wastes and the extraction of construction materials.
