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Empty Jugs and Dry Reservoirs: Inside Puerto Rico’s Worsening Water Emergency

Drought and aging infrastructure have left more than 3 million people facing outages, while the National Guard delivers water by truck.

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By Ray Sanchez, Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — Milagros Pica Quiñones’ small concrete home is an untamed menagerie of bottles, paint buckets, bleach and laundry detergent jugs. The 96-year-old grandmother in the impoverished oceanfront town of Loiza, in Puerto Rico’s northeast, sees “the thinnest thread of water” trickling from her faucet most days before service is shut off from 10 p.m. until dawn. “I drag the buckets away with whatever strength I…

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In the face of drought, the authorities declared a state of emergency, but Puerto Ricans have been living with water shortages for too long.

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