PDP mayors demand report on water interruptions

Puerto Rico Mayors Association President Jorge González Otero.

By The Star Staff

Puerto Rico Mayors Association President Jorge González Otero has issued an urgent demand for a comprehensive technical report from Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) director Luis González Delgado regarding the persistent disruption of drinking water service affecting numerous communities across the island.

In a letter sent through Verónica Rodríguez Irizarry, the Association’s executive director and a member of the PRASA Governing Board, critical issues are underscored, including service outages, erratic interruptions, foul odors, and discolored water. These alarming problems have been reported in municipalities such as Caguas, Cayey, Ciales, Guayama, Humacao, Lares, Loíza, Morovis, San Sebastián, Isabela, Barceloneta, Vega Baja, Carolina, and Hatillo.

The Mayors Association groups Popular Democratic Party mayors.

Particular attention was drawn to the La Cima Community in the Bairoa neighborhood of Caguas, where residents have endured more than nine days without service, and the Torrecilla Baja sector in Loíza, which has faced a staggering fourteen days without water. The Association is insisting that these pressing matters be addressed with immediate and effective action.

While municipalities have taken temporary measures, such as distributing water via tanker trucks, these patchwork solutions are inadequate substitutes for PRASA’s obligation to deliver reliable and consistent service. Consequently, the Association demands immediate and substantive resolutions to these ongoing issues.

The request explicitly calls for PRASA to promptly provide a detailed technical report identifying the causes of service failures by municipality, outline short-term corrective actions, design a long-term structural plan to address deficiencies, and present a clear timeline with estimated dates for restoring service to each affected community.

“The Puerto Rico Mayors Association and its Board of Directors require this critical information to effectively support the impacted communities and deliver direct assistance to the municipalities in urgent need,” asserted Rodríguez Irizarry.

The document has also been dispatched to Héctor Del Río Jiménez, president of the PRASA Governing Board; Virgilio Vilomar Infante, executive advisor to the AAA; and Eduardo González Álvarez, secretary of the public corporation’s Governing Board.