THE NEW DIARY, NEW YORK.- The director of the National Institute of Drinking Water and Sewerage (INAPA), Wellington Arnaud, who maintains his project for the presidency of the republic, gave the conference last Saturday in The Bronx “Public Policies for Drinking Water and Sanitation in the DR, Past , Present and Future”, before some 500 people, although the projection was for 1,500.
The activity was carried out in the halls of the Center for Arts and Culture of the University of Hostos, located at 450 Grand Concourse, 149th Street, in the Bronx, at 6:00 in the afternoon, before an attendance in a higher percentage of PRM militants, consulate officials and the 14 government institutions in the Big Apple.
While in his environment, Alfredo Miase led a picket together with dozens of Haineros demanding the construction of the Haina aqueduct, a promise made by the official and President Luis Abinader himself.
Arnaud highlighted, valued and stated that in the DR there has not been a president like Luis Abinader. But, revealing even more the presentation of his great achievements throughout the country in terms of Water.
“The president has had the gallantry and responsibility, that regardless of the situation he found, he has allocated the resources for water, and today we are executing new aqueducts in different towns of the country,” he said.
“When we got to Haina we started our rescue plan; there we had well fields in Samangola, Camagüi and Carril la Pared, and only 4 or 5 were working. In the rescue plan we tripled the production of the water service, but we perceived the agony of so many years of our people from Haina”, he said.
“We began with our specialists, hydrologists, to identify sources until we were able to find the Itabo source and we determined that there were two sources that had been abandoned a long time ago and we drilled 9 wells and have a production capacity of 5,000 gallons per minute, which it means that the municipality of Haina is receiving the largest amount of water in its history”, stated Arnaud.
“We inaugurated the aqueduct in Haina, however, in the next few days we will be doing a new raffle because we have to lay 100 kilometers of pipes, but this year we are going to conclude and so Haina will have water in each of its sectors,” he added. .
He said that he has a commitment, made by the president, to bring drinking water and sanitation to every Dominican home, “and we will not rest until we achieve it, recognizing that it is not an easy task due to the great social debt that existed, since the country lacked of a public policy on drinking water”.
“There is a plan, programs and projects that seek to provide an efficient service to the people, to later have a self-sustaining drinking water and sanitation system, because the water systems in the DR are deficient,” he said.
He emphasized that all the water privatization programs in the world have failed, because the water has to be managed by the Dominican State, and the president has a commitment to that.
He expressed that if we are looking to the future we have to have systems that are maintained and that over time we can have a quality service.
“It will last a few years, there are sectors that do not have it, it is true, but we are making every effort and we have the decided support of the President of the Republic,” he specified.
