More than a million Peruvians suffered from interruptions in water supply

One million 286 thousand 268 people in Peru suffered from interruption Services Drinking water and sewage, reported by the National Department of Sanitary Services (Sunass).

This happened from the 111 emergency situations caused natural phenomenaWhat damaged the infrastructure of sanitary services and stopped the usual supply from 2020 to June 2022.

“Intensive rains were those who emergencies They called (48), followed by landslides (31), floods (13), earthquakes (8), Huaicos (7), forest fires (2), pollution (1) and thunderstorms (1), ”said Sunass in your report of the profiles

It was reported that only half of this year was reported that about 34,347 people suffered from a reduction in water supply.

From the total victim over the past two years Sunass Indicates that 94% are located in cities, and 6% in rural areas.

“In most cases, the influence of sanitation systems was represented by suppliers of public organizations of rural areas affected by 53 emergency situations, while companies providing sanitary services – EPS 42 and municipal management of units – UGM for 16 natural phenomena. , “They indicate.

Sunass adds that Business Sanitary suppliers managed to replace the service on average 5 days, while municipal management units took about 17 days. Public utilities were those that experienced the greatest difficulty in restoring the service, on average it takes up to 21 days.