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Hello dear and faithful steemians today I will tell you the truth of what is happening in my country Venezuela.

This is difficult to touch on this topic but yes, if there is crisis.Mr. Nicolas has gotten this out of hand because now you walk through the streets of Venezuela and are destroyed, insecurity, blackouts, no cash, even light and water. That is not only economic crisis but humanitarian crisis there are children in the street abandoned if and also ladies of 60-80 years on the street asking because their pension is not enough to sustain themselves economically.

 Crisis in Venezuela: the desperate search for water in Caracas days after the massive blackout (and the risks involved)

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-47564562

What flows down the Guaire River in Caracas is water, but it is so dirty that it almost looks like oil.

Despite this, in recent days, hundreds of people flock to this river course surrounded by asphalt and saturated with pollutants in search of water.

"The doctor of the dispensary has already told them that they can not consume it even if they boil it, but they are still there," says a woman who does not want to give her name standing on a bridge over the river.

Watch your clustered neighbors fill their bottles with an expression that seems more fun than pity.

This Wednesday, the service began to be restored slowly in some areas of the capital, but the water still does not reach many sectors.

It is a common problem in Caracas and in a good part of the country, but now it has worsened due to the gigantic blackout that left almost all of Venezuela in darkness last Thursday.

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Scenes like this are repeated these days in the capital of Venezuela, which complies at the time of writing these lines its sixth day of lack of water.

The country breathed a sigh of relief when, although limping and with persistent failures, the light returned.

Then he began to miss something even more vital: water.

Search for water

As explained in conversation with BBC Mundo José María De Viana, former director of Hidrocapital, the public company that manages the water in it, the baby city of the basins of the Tuy and Guárico rivers, both far from the valley on which Caracas was founded.

Not everyone seemed to be informed if the water they were going to fill their containers with was suitable for human consumption and use.

The retired Humberto López explained to one of his rowmates that he had nothing to fear.

"The water is good, I have taken it and nothing happened to me," he said, while both waited with their plastic drums to give them access to the basement of a police complex in the neighborhood of San Agustín through which he passes. a watercourse where agents allowed them to stock up.

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She, a college student much younger than him, was not sure: "But you know where the water comes from?" He asked. "No," he conceded.

Scenes like this were repeated as the hours passed.

Despair

Dr. Jaime Torres, director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine at the Central University of Venezuela, summarized: "The total absence of water has led people to desperate situations, such as using water from a river such as Guaire, which collects all the sewers and effluvia of the city. "

"It is an extreme situation that involves all kinds of risks, since these people are exposing themselves to biological and chemical agents, bacteria, viruses and parasites."

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Luisfredo, a 27-year-old who looks much older, was one of those who came back from the Guaire River pushing a car loaded with drums of black water.

"We have to catch water from Guaire because the water does not come and the light goes out every moment We are dying If there is no water, how do we cook? And food could not be obtained because it was too expensive," he lamented.

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Skinny and barefoot, at sundown he carried his precious cargo of dirty water to the parish of Coche, where he lives.

There he planned to sell it in exchange for a few bolivars in cash to the elderly in the area, who can no longer go to distant urban adventures like yours and are especially vulnerable to a contingency like today.

Frequent blackouts

The engineer De Viana describes what happens these days in depressed communities like Luisfredo's. "From Monday there is a process of anguish, when humble people begin to realize that the problem is not that there is no water in their home, but that there is no water anywhere."

In social networks, alarming reports also came from other parts of the country.

The government decreed for several days the suspension of work and school hours until the situation normalized and the subway takes days without functioning.

It denies any responsibility and blames the United States for promoting "an electric war" that is "the worst attack in the history of the Republic."

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The opposition and the majority of experts who have pronounced themselves responsible for Maduro and his circle in power for corruption and lack of maintenance.

"It is a scandal of mismanagement of public services," 

In fact, although the great blackout made it especially pressing and visible, the problems with electricity are nothing new for many Venezuelans.

Recently, Maduro had to interrupt a press conference twice in the Miraflores palace because he was left in the dark.

"Caracas without water"

Dr. Torres indicates that also with water "the country has been experiencing an irregular supply situation for some time".

"It is not just that the water does not arrive, it is that the quality of the one that arrives is not guaranteed, since there are many treatment plants that are not operating properly".

"If you look at the latest times, you can see an increase in cases of hepatitis A, an infection transmitted by oral or water contamination," the expert adds, although this information can not be contrasted because the Venezuelan authorities have not spread the data for years. of epidemiology.