Dry Spell: Puerto Rico's Water Crisis Exposes Wider Failures As the southeastern United States struggles through its own drought, attention has shifted to Puerto Rico, where 180,000 households are currently without running water.
This crisis is not just a matter of bad luck but rather the culmination of chronic mismanagement, inadequate infrastructure, and systemic neglect. Puerto Rico's water woes have been decades in the making.
Droughts have become more frequent and severe, straining the island's already creaky infrastructure.