NewsWhore
02-10-2012, 12:50 PM
The Puerto Plata area has been affected by an acute water shortage for the last few days, and the Puerto Plata Aqueduct and Sewage Corporation (Coraaplata) is working to resolve the problem, reports Hoy newspaper.
Local residents have been complaining that Coraaplata is ineffective. Coraaplata director Omalis Tavarez stated that the problem was that some key equipment, including 14 pumps, had broken down. Tavarez said that they had bought several pumps from the US at a cost of RD$35 million, with the help of the Ministry of Tourism.
There have been protests in several areas, with burning tires and obstacles in the street, and groups, community leaders and housewives have been demanding that Coraaplata resolve the problem as they are fed up with the lack of water.
Martin Reynoso of the neighborhood group in Cambelen, in the east of the city, said that they did not want to protest, but Coraaplata was giving them no option, and Josefina Martinez, a community leader from barrio Villa Progreso, said that they had not received a drop of water for over three months, hence the need to go out on to the streets to demand that Coraaplata resolve the situation.
Coraaplata operations director Hungria Binet said the lack of water was caused by sabotage to a valve in the main pipeline committed by persons unknown, in order to affect the image of the institution. She said that the saboteurs had used such a large rock to break the valve that there had been no water since the end of last week, but that supplies had been restored after technicians installed a new valve.
Binet said that whoever carried out the sabotage should know that it would not work, as their technicians would continue to work tirelessly to resolve any problem.
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Local residents have been complaining that Coraaplata is ineffective. Coraaplata director Omalis Tavarez stated that the problem was that some key equipment, including 14 pumps, had broken down. Tavarez said that they had bought several pumps from the US at a cost of RD$35 million, with the help of the Ministry of Tourism.
There have been protests in several areas, with burning tires and obstacles in the street, and groups, community leaders and housewives have been demanding that Coraaplata resolve the problem as they are fed up with the lack of water.
Martin Reynoso of the neighborhood group in Cambelen, in the east of the city, said that they did not want to protest, but Coraaplata was giving them no option, and Josefina Martinez, a community leader from barrio Villa Progreso, said that they had not received a drop of water for over three months, hence the need to go out on to the streets to demand that Coraaplata resolve the situation.
Coraaplata operations director Hungria Binet said the lack of water was caused by sabotage to a valve in the main pipeline committed by persons unknown, in order to affect the image of the institution. She said that the saboteurs had used such a large rock to break the valve that there had been no water since the end of last week, but that supplies had been restored after technicians installed a new valve.
Binet said that whoever carried out the sabotage should know that it would not work, as their technicians would continue to work tirelessly to resolve any problem.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)