Major water scarcity in Metropolitan Port-au-Prince Haiti following gas price hike street protests

Many Haitian citizens in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area are complaining about a lack potable water in their neighborhoods after the gas price hike riots that paralyzed the capital so much, water delivery was a non existant.

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Potable water is often transported in big trucks from various water treatment facilities to by sold to distributions businesses in Haitian neighborhoods to be resold in 5 gallon jugs to the population.

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With the multitude of roadblocks that were raised in the capital over the weekend due to the gas price hike riots, acces to drinking water was very difficult for some. It was impossible for potable water trucks to make deliveries.

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Concern says...

Well they were not thinking about these things when they went while.

My goodness how stupid of them causing so much damage and destruction to thier own

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