The Army began today theprovision of drinking water in shanty towns in Valenciathat they do not have access to public supply and that, until now, they have been surviving thanks to the water for human consumption that the Red Cross had sent them since the state of alarm due to the covid-19 pandemic began.
At the moment, soldiers from the High Availability Terrestrial Headquarters (CGTAD) have distributed11,000 liters of water in eleven tanksinstalled by the concessionaire company of the València Obremo City Council in four of these settlements, among them, the one located in La Punta, where a community of more than one hundred people resides. Over the next few days, they will take water to tanks installed in other settlements in Valencia, where they currently inhabitaround 600 people.
The first to receive water has been thePare Presentat core of housing, next to the Font de San Lluís train station, where Obremo had already installed two tanks of 1,000 liters each. At that point there are 20 people living, all of them from the same family, who received withtokens of appreciationthe water, although in a first momentthey were surprised to see the procession arriveformed by the Army, the National Police and the vans of the concessionaire that has installed the tanks.
Those cisterns will berefilled every 10 days by the Army, which has acted at the request of the Valencian city council and in the company of various endowments of the National Police to ensure that the operation proceeded smoothly.
Army sources have reported that in the previous days, work has been carried out to reconnoitre the areas where the warehouses are located and how the people are. For today, the CGTAD has activated a tank truck, a support vehicle and a Captaincy one.
Before being able to fill the reservoirs, Obremo workers have emptied the accumulated surplus with water pumps and have descaled them andthoroughly cleaned, including hyperchlorinatedto guarantee the potability of the liquid. Later, the military have supplied them from their tank truck.
Until now, people living in these types of sub-housing nucleiwere supplied from public sources, but the start of the state of alarm forced them to be closed due to public health, so the Red Cross began distributing bottled water until the current tanks have been installed.
In addition to the two Pare Presentat tanks already mentioned, the six located in the area ofPedrós Ticket(La Punta), two others inRedfishand another inCamí Vell de Torrent.
In this sense, from the City Council they have confirmed that to ensure their safety, in addition to cleaning and disinfecting the deposits,those deemed “unsuitable for use” have been sealed.
For this, they have been installednecessary protection measures and have been signaledVisibly the tanks as water storage points for supply, and a check is made daily for both their tightness and the non-incidence of direct sunlight, as this contributes to the evaporation of chlorine, so it would no longer be considered unfit for human consumption.
Toodrains are checked dailyof these deposits to eliminate, if any, possible elements that could block them and measures are taken of the temperatures and free residual chlorine of each deposit to “carry out a sanitary surveillance of the same,” affirm municipal sources.
Likewise, a routine statistical control is carried out, with samples from two settlements daily, depending on the number of deposits to carry out control analyzes in laboratories. In case there is any breach of the requirements, it will be corrected, according to the same sources.
The councilor for Social Services, Isabel Lozano, for her part, explained to EFE that they are carrying out “very specific attention to people living in sub-housing settlements in the city,” who are guaranteed daily food menus and attention. sanitary (with temperature taking) three days a week.
“Access to drinking water is also being guaranteed to this entire population, with the installation of public fountains as close as possible to these places and various water tanks for hygiene and cleaning in places without access to sources and the distribution of water bottled for consumption, “he added.
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