UMAPS Water Rationing Calendar

Tegucigalpa's municipal water unit UMAPS — which took over the aqueduct from the national utility SANAA in a contested municipalisation that left hundreds of SANAA workers protesting over lost functions and unpaid benefits — manages chronic scarcity through a published rotation: an official calendar assigns each neighbourhood its water days, consultable online by neighbourhood name on umaps.hn alongside account-balance lookup and digital billing. During the 2026 drought emergency the June–July calendar stretched most sectors to service once every two to five days — parts of the Centroamérica system up to seven — and UMAPS made once-a-week supply the norm for most neighbourhoods in July, with waste fines of 500–1,000 lempiras and an anonymous tip line. The schedule is a data layer over scarcity, not a fix for it: crews operate dam valves around the clock, arrival times shift with plant output, and the calendar's honesty is precisely that it documents how little water the city can distribute.