No water - it's time CAAF fired someone!

[beachlife]

It shouldn't have taken an emergency for them to make sure these areas had sufficient water supplies to meet the needs of the communities. CAAF still have questions to answer, their basic duty is to supply water they haven`t met that brief on numerous occasions. So for me CAAF need to be replaced with something else that can actually do the job properly.

[Grampiangranny]

One of the blessings of being in a very quiet El Cotillo has been the dramatic improvement in our water supply. We can now take a bath or shower any time of day and actually have enough pressure to move the hot water out of the boiler to the taps!  On high days, holidays and busy weekends this basic requirement has been sadly lacking, and as bulding work continues apace here has deteriorated to the point of possibly becoming a legal issue. How can CAAF charge a connection fee to a system that for long periods of time offers no water supply?

The southern part of the village is slightly higher than the northern part and therein lies the problem. The hotels and most of the ongoing development is in the northern end.

[beachlife]

I had a problem with a new water meter from CAAF. When I was not using water it was still ticking over. I had no water entering my house as I had another 2 stop cocks fitted after their cut off valve, to make sure that the garden doesn't have a leak when I shut off the house supply at CAAF`s cutoff valve to the house when I am away over the summer months. I managed to get a CAAF engineer come out to look at the meter. He said it was not a problem because it was just a little amount. I tried to explain to him that I had no problem with the old pump but want to know if I have a leak & the only way I can do this is by checking the readings on the meter. He shrugged his shoulders I said if everyone  is having the same problem as me CAAF must be making a lot of Money another shrug. He said we could replace the meter. I thought great we are getting somewhere, but then he said you would have to pay for that. I said but I didn't want the change of the old meter you have replaced it with a faulty one, the new one might be faulty as well.He said well you would need to replace that one as well. Another shrug, at this point I gave up. This just sums up the attitude of CAAF they just can't be bothered.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

No water in Tindaya for 2 - 3 days, reserve ranks running out 😥.
Response from CAAF to my query :

Good morning.
 We have a fault in the network, these in it.
 Excuse me.

Not a lot of help and an end to frequent hand washing etc 😥 just gel now....

[beachlife]

You couldn`t make it up.

There has to be a comedy farce to be written about CAAF.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Our mains has been off all day, working off of our reserve, hope it comes back on overnight. 

[Rome77]

Ouch - ironic timing of this as we're about 24 hours and counting without water supply...

One can always hope this investment will help improve things!

[Lexeus]

Ouch - ironic timing of this as we're about 24 hours and counting without water supply...

One can always hope this investment will help improve things!

It must be part of the switching over process


Well it does make you wonder, if this is such a game changer and it only cost a couple of hundred thousand euros, then why wasn't it done before?!? They spent millions on the state of the art Puerto Rosario plant....

The way they talk about having piped water available makes Fuerteventura sound like some 3rd world country, isn't reliable mains water the least you can expect in a western country?

Anyway, here down South (they seemed to forget about us?) we will just keep dreaming about the day when we don't have to rely on a truck to drop off our water 

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Ouch - ironic timing of this as we're about 24 hours and counting without water supply...

One can always hope this investment will help improve things!

Tindaya the same, again   Don't think this particular investment will help us though ...

[Lexeus]

It is shameful how such an important utility on a desert island can be that badly run. The Puerto del Rosario plant has already had millions spent on a huge capacity and they are now wasting Money on short term extra-expensive portable desalination modules simply because they have completely mismanaged the water storage system. Their system of supply is based on having instantaneous capacity to meet water supply demands and then cutting people off when they can't meet it, it's like the UK not bothering to have reservoirs and just hoping that it rains enough when everyone gets up in the morning to make a cup of tea.....

What justification can they possibly have for not fitting these extra units in places like La Pared where a concentrated urbanised area relies on trucks to bring the water in every day. They highlight that the next weakness they need to focus on is the distribution network from the desalination plants, but it's as if they don't even recognise that large numbers of urbanised areas don't even have a pipe to connect to the 'distribution network' 

Of course this is all at a time when the biggest demand on the water network isn't even drawing water, the hotels! If CAAF can't supply enough water when the huge hotels aren't drawing anything like their normal amounts then someone definitely should be fired....