HALF OF ISLAND STILL WITHOUT CLEAN WATER

JUAN, SAN PUERTO RICO Access to drinking water has been restored to 45% of Puerto Rico — but more than half of the U.S. territory of 3.4 million is still going without.

The statistics come as a war of words between President Trump and the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, escalated Sunday. Trump is trying to defend his administration’s handling of the humanitarian crisis that has enveloped the island since Hurricane Maria’s brutal onslaught Sept. 20.

But local officials say the response is paltry at best.

Here is a look at where the numbers stand Sunday:

u Access to drinking

water: 45% u Death toll: 16 u Gasoline stations

open: 721 of 1,100 u Electric customers

with power: 5% u Supermarkets open:

295 of 456 u Pharmacies open: 337 u Municipalities visited and provided with emer

gency supplies: 78 (all of

them) u Staging areas across the island for food, water

and other supplies: 11

u Shelters open: 139 u Hospitals open: 51 of 69 u Hospitals connected to

the electric grid: 9

u Functioning cell tow

ers: 14% u Open ports: 75% u Roads: 50% of major roadways cleared u U. S. response team:

12,600 people on the island

Source Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, status.pr., White House.