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April 6, 2001



FROM CUBA

Lack of water provokes public protest

HAVANA, April 4 (María de los Angeles González Amaro, UPECI) - The interruption of the municipal water service, now lasting more than 30 days, provoked a public protest yesterday by residents of Gustavo Street, in the Arroyo Naranjo municipality of Havana.

Officials of the local Water and Sewers Authority say the lack of water is due to the

breakdown of four of the 16 pump motors that should be on line. Others blame the workers whose job it is to open the outlet valves.

About 10 of the more than 4,000 residents affected by the lack of water warned the local representative of the Communist Party that next Thursday they would raise their complaints to the upper levels of the Party.

Some residents have installed motors of their own to take water directly from the mains. This measure has irritated other residents, who regularly insult the owners of these motors. Police and State inspectors are under orders not to interfere in these disputes.

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