Hundreds of thousands of bottled water are still sitting at a Puerto Rico airport nearly a year after hurricane Maria.
Abdiel Santana, a photographer working for a Puerto Rican state police agency took the picture.
“[…] almost a million boxes of water that were never delivered to the villages.
Is there anyone who can explain this?” Reportedly, FEMA acknowledged to CBS News on Wednesday that the bottles were brought inland in 2017 in the wake of the hurricane and that they were turned over to “central government.” So far it is still unclear on who is responsible for the wasted water.
The New York Post reports, celebrity chef José Andrés, who reportedly, brought a crew of volunteers to help feed victims of Maria in the wake of the storm, is seeking answers.
He called for an “official independent investigation” into what happened to the stash of drinking water.
“My teams knew about it but first they will say, ‘no we can not use them,’ months later water was no good for human consumption,” he tweeted.
“We were ‘buying’ water because they wouldn’t give it to us.” Andrés did not specify who “they ” were.
Since Hurricane Maria, it has been revealed the initial death toll of 64 was incorrect.
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