Puerto Rico begins water rationing as drought crisis deepens

Hundreds of thousands of residents lack running water; low-income families spending money on bottled water; elderly relying on neighbors for water delivery.

In Puerto Rico, the taps have gone quiet for hundreds of thousands of people — not as a sudden catastrophe, but as the culmination of a long, slow unraveling. San Juan's driest July in over a century has collided with decades of deferred maintenance and crumbling pipes, forcing emergency rationing across 180,000 accounts with no end in sight. It is a crisis that weather alone did not create, and weather alone cannot resolve — a reminder that infrastructure is a form of social contract, and its neglect is a choice with consequences borne most heavily by the vulnerable.

Puerto Rico begins water rationing as drought crisis deepens

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