60% of Hatillo’s population lacks access to potable water
Three schools suspended classes due to the water shortage
The municipality has set up permanent water distribution points to support affected communities
Why this matters: The water shortage affects 60% of Hatillo’s population, impacting local households, businesses, and schools, and highlighting the need for improved water infrastructure and coordination between authorities.
Hatillo Mayor Carlos Román Román criticized AAA executive president Luis González Delgado over a water outage affecting roughly 60% of the municipality’s population, concentrated in five neighborhoods: Carrizales, Corvocado, Pajuil, Campo Alegre and Buena Vista. The mayor said three schools—Padre Aníbal Reyes, Timoteo Delgado, and Luis Meléndez Rodríguez—suspended classes, and elderly care centers and businesses were forced to halt operations.
He said Hatillo’s water tanker trucks must travel to San Sebastián to refill, a round trip of about five hours, and criticized both AAA and LUMA Energy for failing to give concrete answers.
In context (787daily, from public data)
0.2%of LUMA customers without power
60-day average 0.2% · worst 1.8%, Sep 30
LUMA's portal showed 0.2% of customers out at 6:08 AM AST on Nov 5, 2026. Across the 60 days 787daily has tracked it, the daily average is 0.2% 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.