The week of September 6–12 in Puerto Rico played out in water, health and schools, and government and politics. Carraízo rose 0.18 m over the week to 39.19 m while AAA’s scheduled interruptions stayed paused.
In Yauco, elderly adults are struggling with hunger and loneliness, and some turn to medication to cope. San Sebastián is struggling to capture the stray dogs that attacked a boy, and its mayor says state funds for the job went unused.
LUMA Energy has yet to replace streetlights in nine municipalities and says the fixes will come by January. A Senate bill would fine protesters who intentionally block traffic up to $2,500.
On September 6, AAA’s daily monitoring found 10 reservoirs losing water. The drought map dated September 8 still has 61 of 78 municipios in at least moderate drought. Elsewhere on the water map, La Plata fell 0.29 m, Cidra rose 0.10 m and Toa Vaca fell 0.01 m.
The week’s developments
Developments of the week of Sep 6–Sep 12.
Development (Links to the full write-up, which names its source)
Theme (The subject it is filed under: government and politics, energy, water, the economy, safety, health and schools, roads and travel, culture and sports, or daily life around the island)
Change in meters between AAA's chart readings on September 5 and September 12. Green is the week's direction, not the reservoir's state — a reservoir can gain water and still sit in a low band, which is the column beside it in the table. The daily picture is on the water page.
Source: AAA reservoir chart, daily readings kept by 787daily.
Reservoir
Sep 5 (AAA chart reading at the start of the week, meters above the reservoir's datum)
Sep 12 (AAA chart reading at the end of the week)
Change (Over the week, in meters)
AAA band (AAA's operating band, from the top: safe, watch, adjustments, control)
Carraízo
39.01
39.19
+0.18 m
watch
La Plata
44.54
44.25
-0.29 m
adjustments
Cidra
400.17
400.27
+0.10 m
watch
Toa Vaca
147.21
147.20
-0.01 m
safe
What to watch
The water desk's watch list for the coming week.
Watch (From the daily Water Watch's own reading of the trend)
Why
Carraízo
whether the rise survives a dry week: this week's gain came with 1.82 in of rain nearby.
Cidra
whether the rise survives a dry week: this week's gain came with 4.52 in of rain nearby.
Sources: the linked reporting; AAA’s reservoir chart and rationing notices; the US Drought Monitor. Reservoir levels are AAA’s chart readings, and the drought map is a weekly expert synthesis of indicators, not a rainfall total.
Corrected October 7: an earlier version presented one day’s reservoir count, September 6, as the week’s.
In context (787daily, from public data)
<0.1%of LUMA customers without power
52-day average 0.3% · worst 1.8%, Sep 30
LUMA's portal showed under 0.1% of customers out at 6:06 AM AST on Oct 28, 2026. Across the 52 days 787daily has tracked it, the daily average is 0.3% and the worst was 1.8% on Sep 30, 2026.
Worst of LUMA's five full years, up from 26.3 hours the year before
Customers averaged 28.4 hours without power in the fiscal year that ended in June 2026, the worst of the five full years LUMA has run the grid and up from 26.3 hours the year before.
LUMA operates the transmission and distribution system.
About this analysisOriginal 787daily analysis of our Morning Briefs and AAA's reservoir readings · Report an errorCite this
Source: 787daily, “The Week in Puerto Rico: Carraízo Up 0.18 m, Rationing Still Paused”, Sep 13, 2026, https://787daily.com/news/2026-09-13-the-week-in-puerto-rico-carraizo-up-0-18-m-rationing-still-p/
The week's developments from the morning briefs, by subject (government and politics, energy, the economy, safety and more), each linked to its full write-up.