ZAZA DAM

The Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party received updated information on the consequences of recent heavy rains in the province»

This report has the only antecedent of the 1 293 million cubic meters received by the reservoir during the heavy rains event of May, 2012»

Heavy rains are reported in several areas of the province and thousands of people from the southern territories have been evacuated»

At the end of September, the reservoirs of the island held a total of 6.446 billion cubic meters of water»

    The electricity network was severely damaged with the passage of Hurricane Irma in the province of Sancti Spiritus, particulary in Yaguajay and in the capital city»

In a message sent to the Cuban people, the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Raul Castro said that: “One principle remains immovable: the Revolution will leave no one unprotected and measures are already being adopted to ensure that no Cuban family is left to their fate”. “We face the recovery with the example of Comandante en Jefe »

The greatest contribution of dangerous Hurricane Irma in Sancti Spiritus was the 731 000 000m³ of water received in the nine reservoirs that exist in this central Cuban province between Friday and Sunday. At that moment the territory stored 928 000 000m³, which represents 72 percent of its reservoirs’ capacity. The local Zaza dam, which was just at 15 percent of its »

New archaeological finding confirms the presence in Sancti Spiritus of aboriginal agriculture-ceramist groups from the 16th century»

Perhaps there is no better thermometer in Sancti Spíritus to assess the severity of the drought than the situation of the Zaza River, the second largest in Cuba, and the major to feed the local Zaza Dam»

Work is moving forward on some 30 water supply projects ion the province, including repairs of 11 pump stations and the Siguaney-Zaza River conduit»