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Residents of Aguada and Río Piedras Require Green Alternatives from US Corps of Engineers to Channel Rivers
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The US Army Corps of Engineers clings to the canalization alternative because it is the least expensive way to address the problem.
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The Mirage of the Panoramic Route
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The tour through the mountains offers Puerto Rico’s most emblematic natural views, while reflecting government abandonment, the slow pace of post-Hurricane María reconstruction, and the urgency of funds for a new management plan.
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Sargassum Hits the Puerto Rico Coasts, Department of Nature and Environment Lacks Mitigation Plan
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Dozens of municipalities have privatized their public nuisances management programs and let companies handle public nuisances’ determinations, appraisals, legal representation in courts of the expropriation processes, and even seeing through the sales of expropriated properties.
English
Clogged Irrigation Channels and Mangrove Deforestation Aggravated Extreme Flooding in Puerto Rico
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Clogged irrigation channels and the increase in mangrove deforestation in recent years were factors that worsened the effects of the up to 25 inches of rain that Hurricane Fiona dropped on Salinas this Sunday and caused the evacuation of more than 426 people.
Los chavos de María
Formalizing Community Aqueducts is a Discouraging Process in Puerto Rico
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The procedure for community aqueducts to legalize their franchises and maintain their operation is so complicated, bureaucratic, and devoid of technical support that it discourages communities from formalizing the systems that carries water to their homes because of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority’s inability to provide the service.
Los chavos de María
Out of Service 33% of Puerto Rico’s Air Quality Monitors
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Fourteen of the 42 monitors that the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA, in Spanish) used to measure air pollutants harmful to health throughout Puerto Rico are out of service, some for as long as five years, a Center for Investigative Journalism investigation found.
Caribbean
Puerto Rico Lacks Direction to Manage Sargassum Problem
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On Alfonso XII Street in the Punta Santiago, a coastal neighborhood in Humacao, 62-year-old Bermuda Vázquez points toward the beach that is blanketed with brown seaweed, known as sargassum. Although it was a day off in midsummer to commemorate the emancipation of slavery in the United States, beachgoers were nowhere to be seen. “The thing is that one is afraid of getting ill in that water with the sargassum that stinks. I’ve lived in this community all my life, and I remember when, on days like today, many people came to the beach. But you have to adapt to this sargassum,” Vázquez told the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish).
