More than 914,000 people in the northwest and northeast of the country are affected by discontinued services in piped drinking water, due to the rising of the rivers caused by the increase in rains since hurricane Maria has affected 58 aqueducts, of which 52 are totally out of service.
The information was given by General Juan Manuel Méndez, director the Emergency Operations Center (COE), and Ramón Batista representing the National Institute of Drinking Water (Inapa) in the COE.
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El Dia
26 September 2017
