Puebla Governor Launches Free Water Delivery for 36,000 Families

The state government of Puebla has initiated the "Agua para el Bienestar Por Amor a Puebla" program to provide free potable water to about 36,000 families in the capital city and surrounding municipalities. The initiative, ordered by Governor Alejandro Armenta Mier, is being overseen by the State Secretary of Welfare, Laura Artemisa García Chávez, who said the service is "entirely free and no person or group can condition it."

Delivery teams are supervising distribution in neighborhoods such as Barranca Honda, where residents previously purchased water by tanker and faced debt notices of up to 14,000 pesos from the concessionaire Agua de Puebla despite receiving no service. The program includes the installation of storage tanks (tinacos) and aims to address a long‑standing water shortage, aligning with President Claudia Sheinbaum’s national humanism and social‑justice agenda.