Some hotels are paying up to $120,000 per month for water in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, where the problem with no solution in sight is getting worse.

The problem of lack of water resources is affecting much of the province of Guanacaste, especially in tourist areas such as Playa Panama and Playa Hermosa, where the union of hoteliers in the province has denounced the fact that despite the meetings they have had with representatives of the Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) and the government, “… all of the projects that have been proposed have been shelved or moving are very slowly.”

Rocio Larin, a representative from the Water Emergency Committee in Playa Hermosa told Crhoy.com, “… ‘We can not offer a paradise without water or with only salt water. Tourists are not going to come’.”

According to the explanations of the authorities at the AyA, there will be no solution to the problem before March 2017. Assistant manager, Manuel Salas, “… confirmed that they have had many meetings with the regional commissions to explain that that they have lost capacity to supply [water] in light of a serious problem of sanilization in both AyA wells and other private ones.‘It is unlikely that the problem will be resolved this year. At the moment, they are serving communities and hotels with tankers and bringing back a weak pulse to this emergency’.”