Ecuador government cutting off electricity for up to 14 hours per day due to drought

[Sleepy Floyd]

In Ecuador, power-dependent patients wait in anguish as the government imposes hours-long blackouts

The first time electricity went off at night, Linda Vidal went into panic mode. The 52-year-old Ecuadorian woman has relied on an electricity-powered oxygen concentrator to breathe properly since she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and a chronic respiratory disease.

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Ecuador expands power cuts to 14 hours a day due to drought

Ecuador has announced an increase in daily power cuts as the severe drought impacting the nation keeps lowering the levels of water for the key hydroelectric plants, the source of more than 70% of the country's electricity.

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[Sleepy Floyd]

Part of the country is desert and part of the country is rainforest

I've been to Quito and it rained every day for the whole 20 days I was there. Also went to Esmeraldas where the Afro-Ecuadorian population lives. Shyt was goated


I never thought the country could ever be in a drought

 

[Wiseborn]

Part of the country is desert and part of the country is rainforest

I've been to Quito and it rained every day for the whole 20 days I was there. Also went to Esmeraldas where the Afro-Ecuadorian population lives. Shyt was goated


I never thought the country could ever be in a drought

It's crazy it's a dry year but damn they're fighting a drug war and dropping the ball like this?