Good morning to you too. God bless you. In the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful, may god bless muhammad and the family of muhammad, and the speedy recovery of the prophet, i greet you, my dear compatriots and honorable companions, the number of palestinian martyrs in gaza has reached 465, of which 78 martyrs are children and 46 martyrs are women in air raids. More than 2,000,300 palestinians were injured in gaza. Zionist regime fighters bombed the area around shafa hospital in gaza. Also two mosques in air strikes was destroyed 19 palestinians were killed in an attack on a residential house in beit hanoun in the north of the gaza strip. 18 people were martyred in rafah in the south of the gaza strip and 5 people were martyred in the east of khan yunus. Also, with the martyrdom of four palestinians in gholandiya and two palestinians in hebron and south of nablus, the number of palestinians in the west bank reached nine on sunday. In response to the continued crimes of
Shamsavad industrial co. , ltd. Say that it is not desirable. Water is still being bottled. We cannot supply water for our industry for 12 hours in 24 hours. This is why the industrial sector of sibel has been cut off. Share of Agriculture Sector 98 i am telling you this mr. Mahneh q. I am expecting it. Can you seriously defend these issues in the committees that you are invited to, if not in the parliament , let the law be passed, please allow this case to be the same as note 8 of the budget law of 1402. On behalf of the industrial units , we went to different commissions for hours and discussed the directive that all the towns use a portion of the water they have. By the honorable minister of energy at the end of the year 14 , our industry and artisans are smart and wonderful people economic people know its value. You mentioned water. The most added value of water is probably in the industrial sector. For every one liter of water supplied in a city, on average, we have 50 to 145 jobs
Executive director for puerto rico electric Power Authority, prepa, welcome, thank you for being here this morning. Mr. Julio rhymer executive director for the Virgin Islands water and Power Authority. Thank you for joining us. You will be followed by mr. Jose ramon morales, we welcome you. And finally we will have ms. Natalie, the executive director for the financial oversight and Management Board for puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes. Your full testimony will be included as part of the record. But i do know that colleagues have questions. As you have obviously seen from that first panel there were some directed to our governors that they deferred until we had the expertise from this panel. So hopefully youll be able to address those questions either in your Opening Statements or in your follow on questions. So with that, mr. Ramos, if you would like to lead off the panel. Welcome. Chairman murkowski, Ranking Mem
Thank you. We begin the second panel again with distinguished group of individuals. Who are prepared to continue the conversation relating to the after math of hurricanes irma and maria. On puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. The second panel will be led by mr. Ramos. Executive director for puerto rico electric Power Authority. Welcome. Thank you for being here. Mr. Rimer. Is the executive director the ceo for the Virgin Islands water and Power Authority. Thank you for joining us. Mr. Rhymer. He will be followed by mr. Jose. The acting chairman for the Puerto Rico Energy commission. We welcome you. And finally well have ms. Natalie the executive director. For puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes. Your full testimony will be included as part of the record. But i do know that colleagues have questions. You have obviously seen from the first panel there was some directed to the governors that they deferred until w
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to review on going Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands in the wake of hurricanes irma and maria, as well as efforts to rebuild it electric grids on those islands in a smarter and hopefully a more resilient manner. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. Just a little over a week ago that senators cassdy, franken and i along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors. For your hospitality. The time you gave us during that visit. It was incredibly important i think for all of us to see to be on it ground and to be hearing directly from you and those that you are working with. I know that some other members of our commi