NewsWhore
09-17-2012, 03:50 PM
The 382,000,000 gallons of water pumped into the Santo Domingo Water and Sewer Corporation's water system are never enough to provide the huge city with sufficient water. The reason is incredibly simple: between 45% and 50% is either lost in leaks or wasted by customers, CAASD director Alejandro Montas told reporters from Diario Libre. He said that on 13 September the system "produced" 383.58 million gallons of water, and 148 million went to the central level, 121 million went to the east, 52 million to the southwest and 23 million went to the north. Montas said that of those amounts, some 172 million gallons were lost. This means that five billion gallons a month are lost when the aqueduct is functioning properly and this would average 60 billion gallons a year in losses. This situation is what keeps water from reaching everyone, and there is little than can be done, although there are some projects that may help the situation.
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