SAN JUAN — Access to drinking water has been restored to 45% of Puerto Rico — but more than half of the U.S. territory of 3.4 million is still going without.
The statistics come as a war of words between President Trump and the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, escalated Sunday. Trump is trying to defend his administration’s handling of the humanitarian crisis that has enveloped the island since Hurricane Maria’s brutal onslaught Sept. 20.
But local officials say the response is paltry at best.