Ex-director of Hidrocapital Norberto Bausson: There is no operational capacity to meet water demand

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Ex-director of Hidrocapital Norberto Bausson: There is no operational capacity to meet water demand
By: Agencies | Thursday, 03/14/2019 04:12 PM

translated from Spanish

The former director of Hidrocapital, Norberto Bausson, assured that 20 million Venezuelans do not have a potable water supply, after the general blackout registered on Thursday, March 7, in almost all the states of the country.

Bausson said that currently Hidrocapital does not have the operational capacity to meet the water demand. "What happened leaves the situation naked in general. The alternative systems parks were also destroyed. "

"In the case of Caracas, we are only going to recover 50% of the demand. We are going to maintain a sustained crisis. Public services are going to stay below demand, "he said during a radio interview.

He mentioned that in the case of Caracas, the reservoirs of La Mariposa and Camatagua are available for their supply, but they have not had sufficient maintenance. "The dependence is so much that by not having electricity, there were no forms of supply for the capital."

He warned that the shortage of water in Venezuela "will last over time" in the absence of maintenance of the pipes and treatment plants available, at the time that he said he was surprised by the reports of people who had to stock up on contaminated intakes. .

I never thought in my life to see that people would drink water from Guaire and it happened. People went to the water intakes at the level thousand that the government closed because they said they were contaminated, and still had to open them to the public, "the engineer said.

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https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n339426.html

Well dang. Another lie from Maduro exposed.

Don't feel bad, keyboard Chavistas. 50% is pretty good for Caracas these days. And I hear that by drinking from the filthy Guaire, your likelihood of going back for more are pretty slim due to dysentery. That leaves more water for the survivors!

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1. I've been saying this for years.

After having traveled all over Venzuela, it seemed everywhere I went, few people had decent water sources. Many homes were without running or reliable water lines and instead had to rely on trucks hauling water. Even in the middle of the cities. Same shit. Can you imagine having open drums and plastic water tanks sitting outside your house with the mosquito-borne diseases here?

We've got a friggin' 60 inch water line that runs right through here from a reservoir in the mountains above Mundo Nuevo. It was laid many years ago to supply water to Maturin and all the towns along the way and has never functioned well. In August of 2011, a kilometer section of the line was destroyed when the reservoir in the mountains topped its damn and sent tons of water and stones below. The thing was finally "repaired" last year.

Talking to my buddy in Pt. Cabello (who now has power btw) the other night, I was describing the on-again, off-again nature of the system here. The lines here in town leak like a sieve. That's to say, they apply pressure and you see water bubbling up in the streets all over the place. Aside from the fact that it's destroying the streets, what do you think happens when there's no pressure in the lines?

Right, all that shit from the streets leaks back into the lines to be sent to people's homes. Kids and adults alike are drinking that crap. And no one cares. The chavista mayor comes here once or twice a year and pays lip service to the problem and then does nothing.

Wonder why I drilled my own deep water well?