It would be difficult to draw a dividing line in Roberto Rivas Fraga, because in that Popular Council a trickle of water reaches some houses, in others it runs smoothly, even through the alleys, while others are afflicted with a chronic drought that not even thieves of water completely relieve: pulling it forcefully to enter it does not always work.
The elevated tank in the South takes longer to fill than to empty and the hour lag keeps the neighbors aware of the slightest signal. And that can be a puddle.
However, that reality is ceasing to be the daily scene along the Camino a Jiquí, which is how people tell Rivas Fraga where at least two constituencies (108 and 109) have seen how the destruction of its streets has followed them the happiness. Moreover, that can mean water.
First 200 houses benefited and now 100. These are closed numbers that Eduardo Alcalá Ortega, the president of that council, says without precision, although he does know that it cost 2 million 234,000 pesos.
That the voters of F Street, between 5th and 6th, had been saying so for more than 20 years, and that the oldest approach of those contours is now a settled issue. A watershed.
At one extreme is laziness or commitment without support. From the other is now the urgent look at the vulnerable.
The open skies (and the streets) saw the residents of Riva Fraga when the small company settled the water issue.
F Street was impassable last week, but for this Tuesday, precisely, the completion of the work was set
There are still those who look without giving credit to the transformation. New Year New Life?
Bad connections were always a headache, now the sockets in each house bear the stamp of the new
A small hydraulic repair company undertakes the work. They do not exceed 30 men
Of the street that became impassable, soon only the trace will remain, while the water runs "underground"
The delegate Lázara Iris Hernández and her President of the Council, Eduardo Alcalá Ortega, in an almost constant exchange. "We have been mobilized since this began," she would say
The backhoe loader has set the pace, but the less heavy machinery (men) has not been left behind
Like someone who removes "everything bad" from F street. Because the crossing of the waters was also a constant there