The Committee for Emergency Operations issued a final bulletin on Monday, 11 September 1017, removing all storm alerts for the Dominican Republic.
Nevertheless, as of Sunday, 10 September 2017 there were still 422,761 people without drinking water since Hurricane Irma left 28 aqueducts out of service.
According to Ramón Batista, director of operations of the National Institute of Drinking Water (Inapa), during the hurricane 58 water storage systems were affected, which caused a lack of service to a million and a half people across the country. The aqueducts still out of service as of Sunday were located in Santiago, Duarte, Santiago Rodríguez, Valverde, Azua, Peravia, Independencia and Bahoruco.
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12 September 2017
