The treatment plant is 4 days without drinking water distributed
People are dying of thirst in El Pao

William Perez Upata .- .- Four days without drinking water are the inhabitants of the parish Andrés Eloy Blanco (El Pao), Piar municipality jurisdiction, due to the malfunction of a pump that supplies the vital fluid from the mine to the lake treatment plant of this population.
This situation caused the dam to the treatment plant is completely dry thus preventing operators of the same, pumping water through pipes to the inhabitants of the various sectors of El Pao.
The social leader of El Pao, Vedel Villarroel, reported that government authorities and representatives of relevant agencies have been unable to activate operational delivery of water through tankers to ease a bit this delicate situation.
Villarroel noted that the shortage of drinking water in El Pao is of long standing. The residents of this productive people are tired of asking government authorities to replace the outdated pumps operating in Lake La Mina and the treatment plant by modern equipment and increased capacity, to ensure better distribution service vital fluid.
For his part, Luis Perez and Alfredo Garcia, members of the Cooperative Hydro-Pao, responsible for operations at the treatment plant of El Pao, explained that since last Monday are not pumping water to the population because the pump Lake La Mina, which provides the vital fluid for potability collapsed.
Indicated that this situation was expected, because the damaged pump with a capacity of 60 liters per second, has long served its useful life, also is not adequate to ensure safe drinking water to the entire population of El Pao.
More than 3 years community and social leaders of this town are calling on the authorities to give Hidrobolívar a submersible pump with a capacity of 180 liters per second for Lake La Mina can supply enough water to the treatment plant and this in turn distribute the liquid vital to the population.
The operators of the treatment plant of El Pao, expect the representatives of Hidrobolívar impose appropriate corrective measures, either by repairing or replacing damaged pump, for the purpose of restoring the service of processing and distribution of drinking water.
HIDROBOLIVAR NOT PAY
The members of the Cooperative Hydro-Pao took the opportunity to ask them Hidrobolívar authorities canceled the economic resources that are owed for services rendered. There are 18 parents who provide their services in the distribution of potable water for this population.
According to Luis Perez and Alfredo Garcia, Hidrobolívar owes two months' salary, plus various contractual benefits in years past. "We work in a responsible way to provide an efficient water service to the people of El Pao, therefore we ask that you cancel in time Hidrobolívar money we have earned with the sweat of the brow".
In this same situation are the members of 27 cooperatives that manage and operate water systems throughout the state of Bolivar.