The Chamber of Commerce comes in as a private liaison in the water emergency

On August 22, 2026, News is My Business covers that the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce was brought into the government's coordination with businesses during the water-supply emergency. The outlet attributes to the guild a formal liaison role to pass information between officials and the private sector. The page returned 403 when opened. What that URL left indexed is written: the Chamber took part on August 22 in a multisector meeting convened by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, with updates on water systems and short-, medium-, and long-term plans.

The new role, according to that indexing, follows an August 11 Chamber request to enter drought planning. The guild had sought representation in the groups updating the Drought Management Protocol, and had asked for bill relief and other measures for businesses affected by rationing. On August 12, the Chamber called an emergency meeting of its Energy Committee and of FACES, its federal-affairs committee, with representatives of affected sectors, including restaurants and hospitals. Those two prior dates are News is My Business's own. They are not turned here into a census of losses.

Under the scheme the guild describes, it will keep communication with the water czar, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, the Tourism Company, and other Drought Committee members. There is also a parallel electric thread: Chamber representatives met with the energy czar to talk about generation and the state of the system. A broader briefing for leadership, committees, and affiliated associations was set for September 3 at San Juan Port Holdings. News is My Business does not publish in the excerpt a daily-loss dollar figure. On August 6, the same outlet had put the CUD citing up to 20 million dollars a day in SMEs. That is another note. This one does not reuse it as a figure of the 22nd.

On August 18, Primera Hora covered AAA credits for rationing. On the 11th, WIPR covered more than 513 million dollars from FEMA, another reconstruction thread. Neither the credit nor FEMA is this meeting. The 22nd is the private liaison the Chamber says it has taken on. It is also not used to read the drought incentive other dispatches place at 10,000 dollars. That figure is not in this URL's excerpt.

Anyone looking for the attendee list or the La Fortaleza minute has to go to the Chamber and to News is My Business. What remain are August 22, the request of the 11th, the committee of the 12th, and the September 3 date. This is not original reporting.

Source: News is My Business. https://newsismybusiness.com/puerto-rico-chamber-joins-water-energy-crisis-response/