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Planned Water and Power Outages Hit Multiple Lima Districts

Authorities say the pauses will allow reservoir cleaning and electrical network maintenance to improve future supply.

Overview

  • Sedapal activated scheduled water suspensions that affect sectors of Ate, Comas, San Juan de Lurigancho and Villa María del Triunfo with outages that can last up to 16 hours in some areas.
  • Pluz Energía began planned electricity cuts across several Lima and Callao districts between July 13 and 14 with individual sector windows of up to 12 hours.
  • Both companies published sector-by-sector timetables so residents can check exact start and end times for their block and plan accordingly.
  • Sedapal has placed tanker trucks at strategic points for emergency deliveries and both utilities urge households and businesses to store water, protect appliances and review official channels for live updates.
  • The work is framed by authorities as preventive maintenance to strengthen storage and distribution so the short-term outages aim to reduce future service interruptions but may disrupt daily routines and commerce in affected neighborhoods.