AyA intensifies water rationing in San Jose metropolitan area

In Moravia, Desamparados, Alajuelita and Hatillos alone almost 60,000 residents are struggling to meet needs in their homes and businesses due to water rationing this week.

Thousands more are affected in other communities as the national water authority, the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AyA), increased water rationing due to the decrease in water levels in its tanks that supply potable water to a number of cantons in the Greater Metropolitan Area of San Jose (GAM).
The AyA, to limit affecting any one neighborhood more than the other, is literally turning off the taps – keeping people without water –  in a rotation plan typically from 10 am to 5 pm.
The AyA estimates that the water deficit can affect more than one million people, in three

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