{"id":124314,"date":"2019-03-25T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124314"},"modified":"2019-03-26T15:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:05:04","slug":"water-scarcity-gets-worse-in-greater-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/25\/water-scarcity-gets-worse-in-greater-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Water scarcity gets worse in Greater Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CAASD-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124406\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of the Water and Sewer Corporation of Santo Domingo (CAASD), Alejandro Montas reports that Greater Santo Domingo has a deficit of some 51,000.000 gallons of water a day due to the prolonged drought affecting the country. He explained that four of the systems providing water to the aqueduct are working at very minimum levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late last week the area was receiving 369 million gallons rather than the 420 million gallons that are normal. Mont\u00e1s made the remarks at a meeting of Evangelicals on the topic of water conservation and proper use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that Haina-Manoguayabo is only using three of its 10 pumps and the others are only providing one cubic meter of water per second, representing a deficit of 70%.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/ciudad\/recrudece-la-crisis-de-agua-en-el-gran-santo-domingo-con-baja-en-la-distribucion-LI12380083\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Water and Sewer Corporation of Santo Domingo (CAASD), Alejandro Montas reports that Greater Santo Domingo has a deficit of some 51,000.000 gallons of water a day due to the prolonged drought affecting the country. He explained that four of the systems providing water to the aqueduct are working at very minimum &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/25\/water-scarcity-gets-worse-in-greater-santo-domingo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124408,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124314\/revisions\/124408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}