Adrian Florido
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385 appearances
47 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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Ten families navigating Puerto Rico's water crisis.
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Adrian Florida, NPR News, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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The tidy three-story condo building on Poma Rosa Street lost reliable water service about a year ago.
Many days, like today, they get none.
Other days, there's just enough water pressure for a trickle to reach the first floor, where Sonia Palacios lives.
This is Norma Peña.
When that text message arrives, the families up on the third floor come downstairs to their neighbors' patios and fill their jugs from garden hoses.
Ten families navigating Puerto Rico's water crisis.
Adrian Flarido, NPR News, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The island's public water utility has, for the better part of a year, not been able to deliver water to a lot of people's homes.
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So although the the formal rationing is starting today, a lot of people have been coping for months without water for days at a time.
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Um in terms of how they're coping,
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Well they're cooking less, bathing less, letting their plants wilt, storing water in buckets and bins when they do get water, filling them up and storing the water.
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Uh they're buying a lot of bottled water.
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The island's public water utility has, for the better part of a year, not been able to deliver water to a lot of people's homes.
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So although the the formal rationing is starting today, a lot of people have been coping for months without water for days at a time.
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Um in terms of how they're coping.
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Well they're cooking less, bathing less, letting their plants wilt, storing water in buckets and bins when they do get water, filling them up and storing the water.
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Uh they're buying a lot of bottled water.
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The island's public water utility has for the better part of a year not been able to deliver water to a lot of people's homes.
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