Cuba's power outages exacerbated by a US-oil blockade have crippled the already crumbling infrastructure that supplies water to capital Havana. People are forced to source water from places like broken pipes, which is leading to the spread of viruses ▻ ↧ Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails Cuban housewife Yuamilka Hechavarria was asleep last Tuesday when water rushed into the cistern of the crumbling tenement where she lives in old Havana.