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Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia defended the executive president of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo on Thursday against the criticism she has received for initiating water rationing as a result of the drought in some areas of the island.
“If there is an agency that is behaving exemplarily, it is the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, which has a whole program of capital works, including the dredging of the Carraízo reservoir, which as has just been reported, is a $70 million project that will start from scratch,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “And likewise, I myself am going to the ground breakings throughout Puerto Rico of different authority projects. The truth is that the personnel of the authority are going the extra mile.”
“This issue of the drought is difficult,” Pierluisi added. “Obviously, they immediately blame the authority, but that’s not fair, because also to the extent that they are talking about, for example, water being lost here and these are problems that come from long ago, which are going to improve as these capital works are carried out, but they are not resolved overnight.”
It does take some time to rebuild an island.
“If there is an agency that is behaving exemplarily, it is the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, which has a whole program of capital works, including the dredging of the Carraízo reservoir, which as has just been reported, is a $70 million project that will start from scratch,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “And likewise, I myself am going to the ground breakings throughout Puerto Rico of different authority projects. The truth is that the personnel of the authority are going the extra mile.”
“This issue of the drought is difficult,” Pierluisi added. “Obviously, they immediately blame the authority, but that’s not fair, because also to the extent that they are talking about, for example, water being lost here and these are problems that come from long ago, which are going to improve as these capital works are carried out, but they are not resolved overnight.”
It does take some time to rebuild an island.
