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Tambopaxi
  3/30/2015 13:54 EST

EcuaVisa (Canal 8 in Quito) carried a fairly long piece this morning at 09h00 regarding increasingly serious water shortages in Montanita, and growing problems in managing of sewage waste water (aguas servidos/aguas negros) in the same community. There was reference to declaration of a water emergency (implications of the declaration not further explained) for the entire Province of Santa Elena.

There was an implicit warning to tourists to stay away from Montanita over the Holy Week holidays. Finally, there'll be another EcuaVisa installment on Montanita water issues tomorrow at 09h00.

OH, you might have more info on all of this from your (closer) perspective down there, particularly as regards to declaration of the water emergency for Sta. Elena Province....

OceanHideaway
  3/30/2015 18:40 EST

There is a water shortage due to drought conditions in the northern part of the Santa Elena Peninisula of which Montanita is a part

Sewage being let out into the ocean has been a scourge of that community for a number of years now ...it is an old problem

Often you will see stories like this in areas that do not want tourism leaving the area during big weeks as they prefer to have the dollars remain in the town -- so you need to weigh the reasons for these messages...

As for water shortages in hotels etc, most of the hotels are served by cisterns and water is brought in by truck, so there will be little value placed on the shortages...

Drinking water is always bottled

The sewage problem -- is always an issue

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ronwatral
  3/30/2015 20:31 EST

OCEAN! We saw that south of Manta as well...from the luxury condo complex we were in. I posted it much earlier. That sh#t has got to stop. :>)))))

remoore2001
  3/30/2015 23:00 EST

Water is the new gold throughout THE WORLD (see California). Water problems are all over the coast. Above Manta we have been bringing trucks in for at least 4 months. Everyone acts like that's no big deal, but when they get the water from some muddy cr@p filled creek, it's a real big deal.
If you move to Ecuador you need to make sure where your water comes from.
Guess what ron, you have no control over it. If ther'es no water, then you don't get water. Quit acting like if us gringos get pi$$ed off over it that it will be solved. Just a fact of life here in beautiful Ecuador

OceanHideaway
  3/31/2015 13:46 EST

Exactly remoore -- and when that muddy stream is drying up or filled with herbicides and pesticides and your cattle drinks it and dies -- which describes 80% of the cattle in the northern portion of Santa Elena -- you have an emergency they have never seen before.

Expect the price of meat to rise -- and people are starving --

So some parts of Ecuador are up over their heads in water and other parts are dying for it ...

If people read the real news and -- that means you need to read Spanish (OMG!!) or at least had enough interest to check the dailies via internet qand read it through translation (OMG ...work at it?) they would know enough to be a tad concerned.

Of course that could interfere with a jubilant retiro -- cut into the fun in the sun and events for all the little brown folks they came to save.

If I sound tad aggrieved... perhaps I am -- the uproar over tender feelings being so wronged with the hoax bears nothing against real people in truly tragic conditions of which no one seems aware..or if they are ...it is paid no mind because it doe not (yet) effect them.

The only time you hear the expat community in an uproar is if their IVA refund effects the ability to take a discount on their latest TV, or if their latest package from Amazon or iHerb may be delayed, or if the new tariffs makes it more expensive to buy their favorite brand of whiskey...

There is a huge disinterest curve between what the expat community (in the majority) feels s a requirement for it's basic needs and what is an actual basic need.

And there is a huge disconnect when these people fail to realize they live in a land of earthquakes and tsunami where at any time their lives can change by a stroke of nature where their ability to survive and what is a true need will be redefined in a split second.

The fall out from that hoax -- high lights what will in fact be a great tragedy when someday Gringolandia meets Fate.

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