Community demands AyA provide potable water
May 23rd, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Residents of the Alto Esperanzas community in Perez Zeledon are demanding that the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) provide their community with drinking water.
The 100 families who live in this community, located about 15 kilometers away from the city of San Isidro de El General, are currently supplied with water from a creek on a private property, which goes completely untreated. The situation has forced the residents to install water filters in their homes after falling ill.
In a letter to the community, the president of AyA said it was impossible to provide water to the community, blaming the situation on the high elevation where the community is located.
The lack of drinking water is also seriously affecting the local high school, where some 200 students occupy the classrooms.
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