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The drama of the lack of water in the middle of summer is repeated throughout the Region and this time those who raised the cry, not only due to the shortage in homes but also due to the lack of responses to the request to improve the network and its extension in an area of 50 blocks in the El Rincón neighborhood of City Bell.
While a petition was started in Tolosa for the declaration of a water emergency for the Region and a collective amparo is being prepared from Villa Elisa, several neighbors met yesterday before the municipal delegation, located 135 and 437. They all ask for an improvement in the water service. drinking water.
In dialogue with this newspaper, they exhibited there, almost to the point that “we haven’t had a drop of water for a long time.”
As indicated in this context, “we have come to make a claim to the Delegation, so that it attends to us and helps us process the claim for the lack of water that takes a long time.”
In the joint demonstration, they also exhibited several banners demanding that ABSA “water for El Rincón”.
One of the neighbors in the movement indicated that “nobody offers us a solution. We have been in this situation for a long time. It is an eternal drama ”, she stated in dialogue with this newspaper.
The network does not reach the entire neighborhood
As described by a neighbor, “the network does not reach the entire neighborhood. There are between 46 and 50 blocks, approximately, that lack water. There are many blocks, many years, many families, and the authorities do not have much desire to solve the problem, ”he explained.
The proposal of the day before has been exposed for several years. They describe in the area that several sectors are assisted through an informal network of hoses, connected to a main pipe or with perforations towards the groundwater.
As indicated, “ABSA asked the neighbors to raise 7 million pesos to do the work to have water.”
In this regard, they explained that “there is a drilling work from 2011 that was not finished, that is paid for, and now they are asking for 7 million pesos to finish it.”
“In the neighborhood, many have drilling because the water reaches 136th Street. That is, it only reaches some sectors, not all the blocks,” they said. On the other hand, the users reported that “the water tables dropped and most of the people who had perforations today do not have water. They told us that in three years the napas dry up. That is, it is not a solution,” said a neighbor.
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“Network water is what corresponds. Here in the delegation, the Municipality and ABSA throw the ball. Nobody gives us an answer. We even went to Government House. They ask us to know the file number when they are the ones who have to know our problems”, they protested to the communal office.
“There is a plan across the creek on the other side of City Bell, because it is a class matter to have or not have water, which is called Plan Verano, where the water arrives. We want them to include us in the summer plan,” requested another spokeswoman for the neighborhood.
In turn, due to the presence of members of the Municipal Patrol during the claim in the neighborhood delegation, the residents pointed out that “El Rincón is the preferred place to stigmatize. They sent us the Municipal Patrol for getting together to ask for water, ”said a neighbor as she looked across the street.
