The government group of the Yaiza City Council will send a letter in the coming days to those responsible for the island water company (Inalsa), urging them to study the adoption of measures that serve "to repair the economic damage that the deterioration of the Uga-Las Breñas water pipe has caused among the residents." "They have had to spend large sums of money buying bottled water due to," they point out from the Consistory
"For more than five years we have felt harmed by a problem that we have not caused and to which no one has wanted or known how to remedy," says the Southern Mayor, Ángel Domínguez. "We have waited in prudent silence but now that, according to the Island Water Council, the new pipe is about to come into operation, we understand that it is time to ask that the necessary measures be put in place to repair the economic damages caused to the residents of Yaiza," he added.
According to those responsible for the Consistory, the list of damages caused by the high iron content in the water that reaches the municipality due to the deterioration of the aforementioned pipe is endless. "We have received dozens of complaints regarding the breakage of appliances, also of clothes that have had to go directly to the garbage and of gardens that have been left like plots. There are hydros that have become unusable and cisterns that will have to undergo a thorough cleaning to become useful again. And we, as visible heads of this municipality, ask aloud who is going to pay for the repair of all these damages," certifies the southern Water Councilor, Leonardo Rodríguez, for his part.
As if this were not enough, both Domínguez and Rodríguez consider that the residents of Yaiza have suffered a comparative grievance by those responsible for Inalsa. "We cannot ignore, in any case, that the inhabitants of this municipality have been charged for the liter of this unusable, unusable and harmful water for human consumption as if it were drinkable."
"Of course, we are glad that the pipe will come into operation during the next few weeks. But we are absolutely clear that we cannot allow this unfortunate episode to remain in limbo and that the residents, in this case those of Yaiza, suffer the consequences of the ineptitude and inefficiency of the public administrations and their managers towards their constituents," conclude the southern political leaders.
