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Water emergency in Lanzarote and La Graciosa: 27 towns without water this Thursday

Canal Gestión informs that these cuts affect four of the island's seven municipalities and, furthermore, in many of the towns, the networks are partially shut down due to breakdowns

Headquarters of Canal Gestión, the company in charge of water management in Lanzarote. Photo: José Luis Carrasco.

The company responsible for water management in Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Canal Gestión, reported this Thursday on its website about water outages in 27 towns on both islands.

In the municipality of Haría, the towns of Arrieta, Punta Mujeres, and Mala themselves have no supply today. Furthermore, in this last town, the company reports that the "network is closed due to an incident/breakdown or low reserve levels, so the area is partially closed".In the municipality of **Teguise**, the town center, Los Valles, Las Nieves, Nazaret Tahíche, Teseguite, Muñique, Tiagua, Soo, and Tao also have no water. Some of these towns also have their networks partially closed due to breakdownsMeanwhile, this situation is also affecting Pedro Barba, in La Graciosa, this Thursday.

In the interior of the island, in the municipality of Tinajo the towns of El Cuchillo, La Costa, Tajaste, Mancha Blanca and Tinguatón are similarly suffering from a lack of water.

Finally, the towns of Tías, Tegoyo, Conil, Masdache, La Asomada, and Mácher also have no supply and, furthermore, all these networks are partially closed due to breakdowns.