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Empty jugs and dry reservoirs: Inside Puerto Rico’s worsening water emergency

Empty jugs and dry reservoirs: Inside Puerto Rico’s worsening water emergency
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By Ray Sanchez, Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — Milagros Pica Quiñones’ small concrete home is an untamed menagerie of bottles, paint buckets, bleach and laundry detergent jugs. The 96-year-old grandmother in the impoverished oceanfront town of Loiza, in Puerto Rico’s northeast, sees “the thinnest th...

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