“Puerto Ricans are learning to live without water on an island that already was suffering an economic crisis.  Rationing rules that had meant water coming through the pipes only one day out of three will increase the cutoff to one day out of four starting next week, government officials say.  The situation has grown so dire that Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company announced that it would spend about $200,000 to use ‘cloud seeding’ in hopes of creating rain clouds over three of the island’s main reservoirs.  The drought comes as Puerto Rico struggles in a nearly decade-long economic slump that has hit the government’s coffers and led authorities to raise the sales tax, even on bottled water.”

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/06/puerto-ricans-face-punishing-drought-amid-economic-slump

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