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Puerto Rico faces water crisis as residents go months without reliable service

[I couldn’t find a mainstream source for this. The press seem far more concerned with the discovery of the old Pan Am wreckage than the people of PR.]

Puerto Rico residents have endured more than two months without reliable running water, a crisis triggered by three major ruptures detected in the island’s 72-inch Superaqueduct pipeline on June 10, 2026, and compounded by decades of aging infrastructure and worsening drought conditions.

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JasonDJ
lemmy.zip

Lol most Americans thing Puerto Ricans are Mexican or Cuban, you think they gaf about PR?

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Maeve
kbin.earth

According to Puerto Rico’s water agency, more than 50 percent of the island’s drinking water supply has been lost over the past 19 years due to leaks, breaks, and spills in the aging system. In a 2019 report card, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave Puerto Rico’s drinking water infrastructure a D grade, estimating the territory needs $3.9 billion in improvements to modernize its public utilities...

San Juan’s mayor, Miguel Romero, sued Puerto Rico’s Aqueducts and Sewer Authority in late May over the outages, signaling growing official frustration with the utility’s response. The governor said repairs to the major pipeline crack were completed by mid-June, but residents remain skeptical. One San Juan resident reported that as repairs progressed, crews discovered additional leaks they said they could not fix without halting other repairs, suggesting the problem extends far beyond the initial rupture.

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Solracreply
lemmy.world

I can confirm, all Miguel Romero does, is to appear as if he is doing something.

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boonhet
sopuli.xyz

Donald Trump should have the president of Puerto Rico kidnapped and disappeared.

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