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Utilities in Peru, Mexico and Argentina Carry Out Scheduled Outages for Maintenance

Providers frame the short-term cuts as preventive work to boost capacity before hotter months.

Overview

  • Sedapal, which kept its planned rotations Saturday, is cutting water in selected Lima districts with posted start and end times and tanker trucks assigned to the hardest hit areas.
  • Agua de Hermosillo begins an interconnection Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. to link a 12‑inch well to a 36‑inch main, with more than 60 northern colonies set for gradual service return through the evening.
  • Pluz Energía Perú is staging programmed power outages from Friday through Sunday across parts of Lima and Callao for maintenance, with some blocks lasting up to ten hours.
  • ABSA’s 48‑hour plan in General Lavalle started Friday with a full shutdown for cistern cleaning followed by network recharge and a Saturday drain, and the company set aside a tanker for priority institutions.
  • Operators urge residents to store water and use reserves for essential needs because pressure must rebuild after works, which can stretch full normalization into the hours after crews finish.