Caracas is abundantly endowed with natural water resources. You have to be incredibly incompetent to avoid that the crystal clear rivers falling down from the mountain supply drinking water to the city, but they did it. Caracas's water is rationed and most neighborhoods have water only ocassionally. The water tankers (pic) supply water at 5.5 dollars for 0.2 cubic meters, which is even higher than the exhorbitant price we in Israel pay for the water. Approaching Navidad (Christmas) prices are expected to rocket.
I have worked on the automatization of Caracas's water supply system. From the pure engineering point of view, it is a very challenging system, with topographic differences of 2,000 meters and quite difficult to manage "by hand". Unfortunately Hugo Chavez expulsed the Israeli water engineers that have been working on the Caracas system by stopping granting visas. Maybe nowaday Bolivian or Iranian engineers are operating the system. Decades of oil wealth ruined Venezuelan's will to work. Which never was too strong.
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You can count on socialists to ruin everything, even the water that falls from the heavens.
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According to me it is one of the inspiration and examples to those areas people who have mountainous water and they dont know how to consume it in a proper way..
Good post. thanks
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