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Nearly 180,000 customers were affected at the peak of the outage
late last week. As of Wednesday, nearly 3,000 customers were
still without water, including nearly a dozen hotels, according
to Gov. Jenniffer González.
The problem has angered many on the island of 3.2 million
people, especially because the state water and sewer authority
has declined to name the company responsible for damaging a main
water line while repairing a road last week.
Municipal officials have set up water distribution points and
have gone home-to-home to distribute drinking water, with the
National Guard now expected to help with those duties.
“As long as I have 11 hotels without water and residents without
service, of course we have an emergency,” González said.
The governor also named a special coordinator charged with
stabilizing the water system, investigating the water and sewer
authority and determining how the incident occurred. He is
expected to issue a report in the next 10 days.
González said that the water and sewer authority's executive
director, who has come under fire, would remain in that
position.
Before the widespread incident occurred, dozens of communities
across Puerto Rico had long experienced issues with water
supply.
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