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The drinking water plant built in the Jama canton still does not comply with all the functionality with which it was built, the final act of a project that was estimated at more than 6 million dollars and that intended to deliver the liquid has not yet been drinking water to some 25,000 people, including rural communities in this town in northern Manabí
The resources for the construction of this project arose from the Solidarity Law, and even in September 2018, the then vice president, María Alejandra Vicuña, inaugurated this work.
Some 25,000 inhabitants of Jama benefit from a new drinking water system
Rober Castro, mayor of Jama, said that they have already made a complaint to the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP), about the stoppage of work regarding the extension of the network of drinking water pipes, an extension that will benefit inhabitants in the route of the Don Juan, Tabuga and Rambuche communities.
According to the mayor, who is also the president of the Association of Municipalities of Ecuador, regional 4, the complaint against the MTOP -which the Reconstruction Committee assumed-, is made for the payment of overdue payroll, in order to continue with the work. The lack of payment, according to Castro, amounts to 1.4 million dollars.
This problem means that populations that were even relocated after the earthquake still do not have drinking water and are supplied with the support of tankers carried out by the Municipality of Jama, or in the case of Tabuga, where the non-governmental organization Engineers Without Borders carried out a piped water project.
There are 7 kilometers of pipeline that remain to be located to help nearly 4,000 people who are still seeking to benefit from the drinking water project. Castro maintains that they cannot intervene in the work since they do not have a definitive delivery certificate and they do not have the financial resources to do so.
They ask for intervention to protect the drinking water plant in Jama
But there are more drawbacks, especially with the flooding of the Jama River, Castro declared. “We have filed a complaint, a claim because they did not build the retaining wall in the water intake, and that does not have a pre-settler either, and a number of things,” said the mayor of Manabi, who said that the intake plant already had a flood months ago.
Faced with the claim for some abandoned works that had to be carried out with resources from the Solidarity Law, Juan Francisco Núñez, governor of Manabí, confirmed that the funds that are still maintained for reconstruction works for this province are guaranteed, according to the answer given by Simón Cueva, Minister of Economy and Finance. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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