1.5 Million People Don't Have Drinking Water In Puerto Rico
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Almost 1.5 million people lacking drinking water and infrastructure remained crippled in Puerto Rico as the devastation from Hurricane Maria created a humanitarian crisis on the island.
The Department of Defense outlined the harrowing situation in the US territory, which was slammed last week by the Category 4 hurricane.
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Roughly 44% of the island's 3.4 million people were without potable water Tuesday, a Defense Department report stated, and the local power grid suffered damage to "80% of the transmission system and 100% of the distribution system."
The report also revealed that only 11 of 69 hospitals had power or generator fuel. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz told CNN that two people who were in an intensive care unit had already died after the hospital ran out of diesel.
Domingo Cruz Vivaldi, executive director of San Jorge Children's Hospital in San Juan, told CNN that his facility was facing a "crisis right now" over fuel.
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