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February 20, 2002



FROM CUBA

"Venice of Cuba" threatened by pollution

Ana Rosa Veitía, Grupo de Trabajo Decoro

HAVANA, February (www.cubanet.org) - Güines, a town of 80,000 just south of Havana, is threatened by the many breeding grounds of the Aedes aegypti mosquito found in the filthy ditches that long ago earned the town the nickname of Venice of Cuba.

The water in the canals crisscrossing the town used to be clear; now the canals have become drainage ditches fed by waste water.

It was approximately five years ago that the clear water turned into a latrine, according to residents.

Since January, the government has been carrying out a campaign of garbage pickup from the streets.

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