PAICV Blames Government for Lack of Water in South Santiago

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PAICV Blames Government for Lack of Water in South Santiago
PAICV Blames Government for Lack of Water in South Santiago

Africa-Press – Cape verde. The PAICV said today that the lack of water in Santiago Sul exposes the MPD government’s inability to manage this situation, which has become “alarming” and is a daily torment to the population. MP Paula Moeda made this statement at a company conference on the lack of water in the Santiago Sul region.

According to her, the lack of water in the city of Praia and São Domingos has become so serious that it is putting people’s lives and dignity at risk and has taken a turn that seriously threatens “the entire extent of human relations”.

“We are experiencing yet another of the many crises in Cape Verde, this is the true water crisis, no less important than any other. It is an essential commodity, water being the source of life”, she stressed.

As she said, in 2016 the PAICV left a production capacity of 40 thousand cubic meters of water per day at Electra, a water production company, which allowed the supply to São Domingos and Órgãos to be expanded. “In recent years, with the MpD’s mismanagement, the situation has completely deteriorated, to the point that the production capacity, which was 40 thousand cubic metres of water per day, has dropped to 12 thousand to 14 thousand cubic metres”.

“Today, we have seen a drastic reduction, around four times less, which is regrettable and incomprehensible. Only through poor governance, poor planning and poor monitoring and control have we reached this total lack of control that has led to a deterioration in services, whether in production, supply, maintenance, debts, lack of reinvestment, lack of continuity of investments that had already been made”, she points out.

Paula Moeda warns that the lack of water shows the MpD government’s mismanagement. “The government is, individually, the largest shareholder in ADS, and then comes the group of Santiago Councils”.

“We need to sound the alarm and appeal to the Government to resolve these major deficiencies in water management that we are witnessing year after year, month after month and day after day. A deterioration in water services, a shortage in water supply and quality. It’s a shame”, she assures.

For the PAICV, the lack of water in South Santiago reflects the Government’s total inability to guarantee this basic need “leads us to ask, at the very least, for water in the taps of homes and good quality water, water in businesses, water in public services, mainly in hospitals, health centres, schools, educational centres, kindergartens and daycare centres, among many other public, private and domestic places”.

“Water is a right, we have only received promises and more promises, of a normalisation that the Government calls phased normalisation, that is, little by little, but not even this little is arriving, and this normalisation has not yet arrived”, highlights Paula Moeda.

Along the same lines, the MP calls for the normalisation of water supply and production in the region of Santiago Sul and in Santiago, and for greater respect for the population of Praia and São Domingos.

“Better water quality to guarantee our health, real distribution to all taps in homes, businesses and public and private services, more investment in the sector, better maintenance of networks and pipelines, more dialogue and settling of accounts between Electra and ADS, a matter that the Government must arbitrate and resolve and take charge of”, she appeals.

For the PAICV, nothing can justify this state of degradation and inefficiency. “Enough is enough, we cannot put up with it any longer, there is a lack of everything in this sector, planning, decision-making, concrete measures that change the situation for the better, compliance with the quality of service that we are expecting and desire”, she concluded.

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