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00:04 Report by / Alvaro Algarra
00:23 Roberto Carpio / Resident of Turgua
01:05 Roberto Carpio / Resident of Turgua
01:38 Teresa Herrera / Resident of Turgua
02:13 Norberto Bausson / Engineer

Script:

00:00
Appliances fail... because the voltage fluctuates...
Roberto Carpio and his wife, Teresa Herrera,  live in Turgua, an hour from Caracas. They experience constant power outages. The water supply is unreliable - and so is transportation. 

00:19  
+++ Roberto Carpio, Resident of Turgua +++
"The public services for Venezuelans are in complete deterioration, we can talk about the 24 states of the country that are without electricity, or where electricity is restricted. We are forced to live either without electricity, or without water, or without sanitation, and with salaries that do not allow us everything. If I pay for sanitation, how do I eat? If I pay for electricity?..."

00:53
The rationing of electricity, once a 'temporary' measure, is a crisis that affects millions of families today. 

01:02 
+++ Roberto Carpio, Resident of Turgua +++
"The first thing that affects us is thinking that the few foods we have might get spoilt, the proteins. What affects us is running out of batteries on our cell phones and not being able to receive an emergency call or respond to someone who is telling us something."

01:21
His wife, Teresa, says there's only running water every 18 days. And she is pleading for improvements to public transportation and health.

01:34
+++ Teresa Herrera, Resident of Turgua +++
"A problem here is transportation, there is no ambulance, there are hardly any doctors here.  Whoever gets sick, dies. I guess, here we have to wait 4 or 3 hours for a bus. The road is terribly bad, it is very dangerous."

01:44
The energy crisis has a domino effect. Without power, there is no constant pumping of drinking water - and gas becomes scarce. Living has become an obstacle course, says engineer Norberto Bausson, President of the Venezuelan Society of Hydraulic Engineering.

02:11 
+++ Norberto Bausson, Engineer +++
"Our large systems demand about two thousand megawatts at the national level. That is a very large number - Caracas alone needs 500. So, if the power grid does not work properly, it also affects the water supply systems, which are very large systems that bring water from very far away and were designed to work with an adequate electrical system."

02:35
About 80 percent  of thermoelectric generation is out of service due to lack of maintenance and breakdowns. Failures exceed 30,000 interruptions per year in different regions. Recently, industry heavyweights like Siemens and General Electric have dispatched expert teams—missions aimed at assessing the damage and saving critical units. But experts warn, the road to full recovery won’t come cheap. Restoring the power network could cost anywhere between 14 and 40 billion dollars.

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