HAVANA.- (ACN) For more than five years Cuba has faced a critical hydrological situation, which has forced to implement in each province programs to guarantee the preservation and proper use of the precious liquid.

In 2012, Aguas de La Habana Company started a strategic plan to reduce losses and improve and expand the service, which includes rehabilitation of networks, interconnection of systems that allow adapting the cycles and schedules of distribution, as well as the detection of alternative sources
of supply and recharge possibilities.

According to sector executives in Havana, the objective is to improve first the technical conditions of the big tubes, where important losses of water occur.

Official statistics reveal that up to now, 1,377.47 kilometers (Km) of networks and tubes have been rehabilitated, using High Density Polyethylene technology, and 1,970.8 km are pending.

The replacement of hydraulic networks has covered the entire province, with greater emphasis on the municipalities of El Cotorro, Habana del Este, San Miguel del Padron, Guanabacoa, Regla, Old Havana, Centro Habana and Boyeros.

To continue such actions, Aguas de La Habana will receive this year modern technological means that will facilitate the accomplishment of rehabilitation work, without the need to break long stretches of asphalt.

As part of a project to clean up the rivers and streams that flow into Havana Bay, there were finished wastewater treatment plants in El Cotorro and Arroyo Naranjo municipalities.

After five years of uninterrupted work, the investments made in Havana have made possible to reduce by more than 23,000 the amount of people who were permanently supplied with water in pipes, and in about 60,000 those who suffered floods from rains.