Luis González Delgado accounts to the Senate for the water crisis

On June 17, 2026, El Nuevo Día covers the appearance of the Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados' chief executive, Luis González Delgado, before a Special Committee of the Whole of the Senate. The headline the newspaper puts on the page is a quote: we are going to look for those responsible. The piece, dated 7:05 p.m., places the hearing in the middle of an acute water-service crisis. The full body sat behind the subscription wall; what remain are the lead, the dek, and the tags the outlet left in view.

According to that lead, San Juan mayor Miguel Romero Lugo points to institutional arrogance. Luis González Delgado, by contrast, says the failures are the result of lack of maintenance and investment, and insists on infrastructure deterioration accumulated over years. El Nuevo Día names among the tags Thomas Rivera Schatz and Juan Oscar Morales. There is in the visible fragment no vote count nor a list of mayors the note has not put.

The newspaper itself links, on the same page, another piece: a new AAA break affects at least 36,566 customers in nine municipalities. This desk's ledger records that, during the hearing, a 48-inch rupture in Bayamón was reported with that customer figure. Those are data published alongside the Committee of the Whole coverage, not a pipe census assembled here.

That same June 17, La Fortaleza announced community cisterns in public housing, with another URL. On June 15, the Senate had taken up Senate Resolution 539 to cite Luis González Delgado. That citation and this appearance are two dates. This note covers the hearing El Nuevo Día recounted on Wednesday.

Miguel Romero Lugo's phrase is not converted into a finding by this magazine, nor Luis González Delgado's into an engineering diagnosis. What remain are the two readings, the Special Committee of the Whole, and the 36,566-customer figure the outlet tied to the new break. The reader who wants the transcript or the rest of the body has the El Nuevo Día URL at the foot. This is not original reporting.

Source: El Nuevo Día. https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/legislatura/notas/vamos-a-buscar-los-responsables-jefe-de-la-aaa-rinde-cuentas-ante-el-senado-en-medio-de-la-crisis-aguda-en-el-servicio-de-agua/