Hands are tied here trying to clean up after the fires, a black soot covers everything inside the house and I mean everything, also trying to get together supplies for the victims of the fires. Meanwhile I saw this article a few days back which obviously explains the water shut down (at least in SADM) since yesterday. I told Mike we need to get a hold of a water truck to fill the pila like in the real olden days. Our pila is about 3/4 full at this point. Looks like I can't mop the floors though. BTW, if you don't have a pila, well estas jodido.
~ From Zeta:
Tijuana Se Podria Quedar Sin Agua En Diciembre, continuaran Los Tandeos
Por, Manuel Ayala
"Rigoberto
Laborín, director of the State Commission of Public Services of Tijuana
(Cespt), said this afternoon that there are great chances that Tijuana
will run out of water in December, due to the conditions in which the
administration left the institution , the lack of payments and the
excessive consumption of the citizenship, reasons for which at the
moment several colonies are suffering shortage.
After the meeting he held with municipal authorities and residents of
the Verona subdivision, he explained that after a review carried out at
the institution, they detected that there was “a total neglect” of the
aqueduct, which was not invested “a single peso” in maintenance for the
past five years.
To this he added that the El Carrizo dam is “at historic levels without
water”, below the limits for the water purifier to reach them, in
addition that the water pumps 4 and 5 are damaged and that since June it
was not paid to Mexicali farmers to pump water to the city.
Given these circumstances and while each of them are being resolved,
the official said that at the moment the only immediate solution is that
“the Tijuanense be in solidarity” to use less water for a couple of
months, that is, not to waste it or be excessive, otherwise the
month of December Tijuana would suffer a total shortage.
He stressed that pump 4 has already gone through a series of revisions
and repairs, so this afternoon they would be testing to see if its
functionality is already in line with what is required, otherwise they
will continue with the repairs.
The pump 5 for a year was broken and already tendered, it will be
repaired at a cost of 250 thousand dollars, but they have no repair
date.
On the water that is intended to buy from farmers is 1.1 cubic meters
per second to be able to send to Tijuana the amount that the city
requires, with which it intends to return a little to normal in the
distribution in the various colonies, for this you have to pay a total
of 18 million pesos.
Regarding the awareness of people to not spend too much water but only
enough, he shared that it is difficult and there is not too much
awareness in it, but they will continue to ask them to do so because “it
is a reality that we can run out of water in December".
“The El Carrizo dam is lowering its capacity one meter per month… right
now we have below 17 million cubic meters of capacity, being that it
should be at 40 million cubic meters, and the last phase is mud, then if
that does not exist awareness, and one meter is lowered per month, and
we don't get the water or the repair of the pumps we have no capacity
for more than two months, ”he said.
Meanwhile, he stressed that during the following months the colonies
will continue to be undergoing tanning, therefore everything in the city
will be running out of water on certain days of each week, as has been
happening for a while since the bombs stopped working.
However, he pledged to publish daily what will be left without the service for the community to prepare."
* Well the last I heard this is November and not December. Anyways, there it is.
~ Update/edit : Here is the latest update on this situation, our water miraculously came back on around 4:45pm, so I was able to rinse off the patio and do several loads of laundry without depleting the pila; so get ready for rationing:
~ From Zeta:
(VIDEO) Proximo Lunes Inicia Tandeo de Agua; Cada cuatro dias Habra Suspension Por Un Lapso Maximo de 36 Horas:CESPT
Por, Isabel Mercado
"The scheduled distribution of water for all the colonies of Tijuana and Playas de Rosarito
will begin next Monday, November 11, every four days the water supply
will be suspended for a maximum period of 36 hours, provided that no
contingency occurs, Rigoberto warned Laborín, director of the State
Commission of Public Services of Tijuana (CESPT).
To achieve the water levels required in the water treatment plants as
well as in the dams, which allows the necessary pumping to supply the
population's demand, therefore, it is necessary to carry out these distributions, at least until the month of April 2020, noted the official.
This implies, he explained, interrupting the water supply every four
days, alternately, in each of the seven districts into which the
drinking water system is divided, an interruption that will take place
for a period of 24 hours, leaving 12 more hours for the recovery
process, which gives a maximum of 36 hours that users could run out of
service.
All districts will restrict water supply at the same time in 20% of their colonies, which they will divide into five zones. The suspension of each area will be announced the day before, for an orderly
distribution.
In
addition to this measure, the population is required to contribute by
reducing the consumption of the vital liquid by up to 50%.
With the population in solidarity and these measures are
adopted, by the summer of 2020 the problem of shortage will be restored,
guaranteed.
He indicated that, as far as possible, the parastatal works to correct
and renovate the infrastructure, being the repair of one of the two
pumps that are not working, of five that would have to be operating.
In a meeting with managers and representatives of the media, held on
the morning of Wednesday, November 6, the new director of the parastatal
said that this water crisis is a deliberate problem that was allowed to
grow during the last five years to promote construction of the
desalination plant.
The neglect of the infrastructure mainly affected the dams in the
region, whose vessels store water below their levels, with a deficit of
up to 18%, a situation that has triggered a severe impact on the
infrastructure of CESPT, such as the collapse of the two pumps, he
detailed.
Finally, the parastatal explained that the water distribution will be
scheduled, so that the colonies where there will be shortages will be alerted in time in order for the population to be prepared."
end edit.
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Will return with Carlos Alvarez's reports on the Le Baron Massacre who is covering everything on Zeta and our stats. And some interesting reports from Proceso of past violent conflicts only just a year ago between the LeBarons and the Barzonistas and the Ejidians where people were actually killed.... did not see that one at all in the USMSM.
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