AAA evaluates fines for water misuse through executive and administrative orders

On July 28, 2026, Radio Isla reports that the president of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Luis Reinaldo González Delgado, contemplates imposing fines, through executive and administrative order, on those who misuse water, in the face of the rationing emergency and the drop in the reservoirs. On Pega'os en la Mañana he says those tools were worked in the past and are on the table: executive orders and administrative orders, in this case from the Department of Natural Resources, to put control through fines.

Every initiative that seeks to extend the useful life of the supply until the rainy period and refill reservoirs, he asserts, is taken into consideration. In addition to conscious use, the authorities urge reporting leaks. The number, 620-AGUA, formalizes complaints that reach the authority's system and are put on a route. Radio Isla does not publish a fine amount or a complaint count. The announcement that it is being evaluated stands.

On July 27, NotiCel covered the Carraízo extraction cut to postpone interruptions. On the 29th, AAA will ask for help to stretch supplies through the second half of August. On the 30th, Jenniffer González Colón will say that an executive order will freeze cistern prices and that rationing at Carraízo is not yet imminent. Three days, three instruments: less extraction, a misuse fine, a price freeze. They are not collapsed.

Luis Reinaldo González Delgado speaks; DRNA appears as possible author of the administrative order, not with a regulation in this piece. On July 20, Rosachely Rivera Santana had chaired the drought committee. She is not here. The Canóvanas and Río Grande rationing of the 16th remains another thread, of the Guzmán Arriba plant, not of an island-wide fine.

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Source: Radio Isla. https://radioisla.tv/aaa-evalua-imponer-multas-por-mal-uso-del-agua/