The latest protests in Cuba are about thirst: more than 600,000 people live without drinking water, as the Spanish daily El Pais reports. The Government has acknowledged that the problem is due to numerous leaks, broken pumping equipment and constant power cuts on the island.
The water crisis in Cuba did not begin yesterday, but the deterioration of the country , the impossibility of maintaining the pipelines and the shortage of fuel have clearly exacerbated the problem, since the hydraulic sector is the second largest consumer of electricity in the country. Cuban authorities have acknowledged that more than 600,000 people suffer from a lack of water. José Antonio Hernández, president of the Business Group for Water and Sanitation, told the official press that in Havana alone some 130,000 clients are affected by the water shortage, and that there are several provinces in the interior of the country with thousands of clients without service.
Read the full article in El Pais (Spanish) or here in English with Google translation
