The Government of President Leonel Fernández created the Oficina Rectora para la Reforma y Modernización del Sector Agua Potable y Saneamiento. The office will oversee the reform and modernization of efforts to improve potable water service. Onofre Rojas, director of the government modernization and reform office, explained that the idea is to go decentralizing little by little the Instituto Nacional de Aguas Potables y Alcantarillados, that groups aqueducts and sewage plants all around the country and other large potable water corporations, such as the Santo Domingo water corporation (CAASD). Provincial potable water corporations will be created and assigned resources so that they can watch over for the quality and quantity of water available in the individual provinces. The new corporation will be head by a yet-to-be-appointed executive secretary. The board of the organization will be made up by the Minister of Tourism, the directors of Inapa, the Santo Domingo, Santiago and Moca aqueduct corporations, INDHRI, the Technical Secretary of the Presidency, and the director of the Presidential Commission for the Reform and Modernization of the State. In the future, any initiative regarding water needs to be presented to the new office.
