More than three weeks after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, more than 35 percent of the American citizens there (and they are all American citizens, every single one of them) do not have potable drinking water, and a report that came out late Friday night indicates that the residents of Dorado are being given water from a hazardous waste site.
After reviewing Superfund documents and interviewing federal and local officials, CNN learned that the water being pumped to residents of Dorado, PR., is from a federally-designated hazardous waste site.
Workers from the Puerto Rican water utility, Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA,) distributed water from a well at the Dorado Groundwater Contamination Site on Friday afternoon, and CNN reports that the contamination site was listed as part of the federal Superfund program for hazardous waste cleanup in 2016.
The EPA has yet to test the water to determine whether it carries a health risk or not. According to CNN, the agency said it plans to do testing in area over the weekend.
This administration is treating the people of Puerto Rico as if they don’t matter.