Silvio Duran, the director general of the Santiago Water and Sewer Corporation (Coraasan), said that by the end of next year the expansion projects throughout the city will be finished, bringing some 60,000,000 gallons of water to the city’s population. He said some sectors of Santiago are now guaranteed 20 hours of water service a day while others will have water service on a continual basis.
Duran guaranteed that next year the aqueduct that Coraasan is building in the community of Cienfuegos will enter into operation and that will resolve the problem of supplying water to that area.
In the meantime, technicians from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are inspecting the expansion and refurbishing projects throughout the distribution network that Coraasan is carrying out at this time.
Some sections of Santiago experienced over 30 days without any water service during the summer, and now many residents are greeting twice a week service as a godsend. The repairs and expansion on the network will involve an investment of RD$741 million with resources from both the IDB and the central government and will benefit more than 100,000 inhabitants in the southern part of the city as well as Gurabo.
12 November 2018
