Three days after the passage of the devastating storm Fiona in Guadeloupe, the consequences are still putting the inhabitants in difficulty.

Thus, nearly 60,000 customers (individuals or companies) are still deprived of water, including the Center Hospitalier de Basse-Terre (CHBT).

The latter made it known that this shortage compromised its proper functioning and the continuity of care.

The health establishment reported in a press release a possible "leakage of the pipes", specifying that "a crisis unit has been set up to take emergency measures".

According to him, the prefecture “makes every effort to supply the hospital with water.

“It is about the absolute necessity of maintaining the interventions and other emergency medical acts programmed within the establishment”, he specified.

The CHBT is not the only one to experience difficulties in accessing water.

Major works to be planned

The Caribbean island is struggling to recover from the damage caused by the torrential rains dumped by what was then only a tropical storm and which on Tuesday rose to a category 3 hurricane on a scale of 5. Thus “58,618 customers” were still deprived of it on Tuesday, according to the Mixed Syndicate of Water Management and Sanitation of Guadeloupe (SMGEAG).

This represents nearly 32% of the organization's estimated clientele.

They were more than 100,000 without water on Sunday, according to data published by the SMGEAG crisis unit.

"Very large works are to be expected" for the return to service of the water network, indicated the SMGEAG, evoking at least "several weeks" before a return to normal.

Normally, many municipalities on the island are subject to solidarity water towers - consisting of cutting off the water in one district to supply another - due to the dilapidated state of the distribution network and the very many leaks that cause massive losses of drinking water.

The former public company was replaced in September 2021 by the SMGEAG in an attempt to resolve the water issue in Guadeloupe.

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