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AAA's (Acueductos PR) website has interactive maps of the rationing areas.聽 Things are getting a bit better.聽 We use La Plata's reservoirs and have gone to a 1 day on/ 1 day off rotation.聽 The Carra铆zo reservoir has cancelled rationing but may have to start again next week.聽

Things seem to be changing week-by-week, but this site can give you a good overall idea of what's going on.

Hope this helps!!

The odd thing is that Ponce is known for being on the dry side of the island and there has not been any water rationing. It does have three rivers that fill two reservoirs that I know of and they just filled another New reservoir but this one is only for the 100 year floods and is not set up as a water source. The ideal thing is to have a cistern for personal use. When it rains it sometimes comes down in buckets and then a dry period comes along. Short term and long term. The land that we have was once a coffee farm. It was a very productive farm for over a 120 years. This is the beginning of the mountains about 15 minutes from the center of Ponce. When I asked the seller of the farm, who was part of聽 the original family, "why they stopped the coffee farm"? He said, "that the weather changed and it got too dry along with a loss of the market when the US took over.". When I bought the farm about 10 years ago we had聽 a really bad dry spring and the 32 acre farm burnt to the ground, small house and just about everything except a few big trees. Since then each year it seems to be getting wetter and the coqui frogs have moved down the mountains to the farm and in town. I am no weatherman but it looks like this could be a new long term cycle. I think living on an island with unpredictable weather patterns it might be a good idea to invest in a cistern or two.

I would most definitely have a cistern.

Here is something Gary just posted.

Gary wrote:

We still need more rain, the levels of some of the reservoirs are still pretty low.

Here's a page where you can see the actual levels:

Now, if you know from which reservoir your water comes (I haven't found a site where you can find that info) you can see if you'll be on rationing or not.
We have 2,000 gallon capacity in our tanks and we have "agua de la calle" most of the times so we're fine. Of course we are more careful with water usage.

Thanks for the link.聽 Its a good one if you know your water source.聽 I was hoping to find a visual map to see the areas with and without rationing, if one exists.

This shows a map of the degree of the drought, but its not the same as where the water has been shut off for rationing, although there is likely a correlation.