For two years, the Simón Bolívar Hydroelectric Power Plant - better known as Guri Dam - began its descent due to the drought that affected Venezuela with the climatic phenomenon known as "El Niño".
But I will not stop there, although "El Niño" affected several countries of South America, they took favorable measures to its inhabitants. In Venezuela, the opposite happened: rationing the service so that the Guri dam would return to normal levels. This measure was "temporary", according to its top headlines.
However, this instead of solving the problem of the water supply, intensified it. For many years, approximately since 2008, the difficulties with electricity began in several states of the country. The blackouts became the "normal" dish of the day in some regions of Venezuela, putting Caracas on the sidelines -because the capital-, which I do not see sense because all the states deserve public services in full.
The issue is that if the light fails, the water supply fails; not everywhere, but it has happened. In the case of Caracas, the most serious problem that affects it (apart from food, insecurity, cash, which is already in the whole nation), is water. There is no sector of Caracas that does not have difficulties to receive the vital liquid.
I live in a parish called Caricuao. It is very big and the rationing plan was divided: in my sector we have to be without water three days a week: Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Three days is too long, right? Well imagine that there are other parishes that not only last for days without water, but for weeks and when the abuse is greater, even months.
Do you think there is a right to this?
Presumably the dam reached its normal levels. And if that's the case, why can not we enjoy our full service?
This weekend the #HidrocapitalNoCumple hashtag was positioned on Twitter. There were thousands of complaints expressed through this social network. People who cried out and cry for water, people who only ask for a decent service as we had before.
It is no longer possible to clean a Friday or Saturday, at least in my case and in my house. Without water? How? And that's not to mention the constant damage to the pipes announced by the state company, who only write via Twitter if they are in the repair of the same. Oh! And they can not miss the photos when they finish their "fabulous" repairs. For them, it is a "super" news repairing pipes. This was not seen before. When in some sector -and I refer again to Caracas-, they removed the water, this was very sporadic: a weekend or failing on holidays: Easter or Carnival.
But what is currently experienced with the theme of water is madness.
For the moment, on the weekends I apply a phrase of a theme by Juan Luis Guerra: "In my pension two buckets to wet my life".
Meanwhile, I do not lose faith that this will change for the good of all.
Thanks for reading me.
