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Venezuelan Crisis
Worsens: Water Twice as Expensive as Gasoline
Due to years of underinvestment in the water processing system,
and a rich abundance of crude oil, water in Venezuela is now twice
as expensive as gasoline.
Residents in Caracas have become wary of tap water after it was
discovered that Lake Mariposa, a reservoir that supplies tap water
to 750,000 Venezuelans, has become seriously contaminated due to
its role as a site for followers of Santería, a syncretic religion
of West African and Caribbean origin influenced by and syncretized
with Roman Catholicism, to dispose of their garbage and sacrifice
animals.
The lake was last cleaned four years ago, when dozens of animal
carcasses were dredged from its bottom, a councillor of the Los
Salinas municipality told Bloomberg.
Water from the lake is pumped into a 60-year-old treatment
facility that lacks the adequate technology to clean it of the
toxins and make it safe for drinking. Fernando Morales, an
environmental chemistry professor at the Simon Bolivar University
of Caracas, said that “the treatment process has not adapted to
the steady degradation of the water source. I wouldn’t use this
water at home.”
He explained that the utility’s water treatment systems were
incapable of dealing with the level of contamination at the lake.
The chlorine used would kill the bacteria, but not the viruses. In
order to make the water safe for consumption, the viruses must be
removed with molecular sieves and modern biological monitoring
systems which do not exist in Venezuela.
The market for bottled water is booming, with families paying
$4.80 for a five gallon jug of clean water, twice the price of
gasoline.
The water crisis really began with Hugo Chavez’s rise to power. In
1998 a year before his election as president, the state-owned
water monopoly, Hidrocapital, had a yearly budget of $250 million,
but in 2010 that had been reduced to just $9.7 million, according
to the company’s former vice-president Norberto Bausson.
The socialist revolution supported by Chavez redirected the funds
from the state-owned companies to be used in projects that helped
to reduce poverty and widen access to education, health care and
housing. 422,340 houses were built for Venezuela’s poor in the
past two years, but all at the cost of basic services.
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil deposits, and eight times as
much fresh water per capita than France, yet the country is
suffering blackouts and a water crisis.
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