Playa Parguito beach: water-truck.jpg

This large water delivery truck is bringing refillable 5-gallon drinking water jugs to the restaurants serving Playa Parguito beach on Margarita Island. Generally the water trucks deliver new jugs of "aqua" weekly, and pick up the empty ones to be cleaned and refilled. The jugs can be a choice of glass or plastic. Currently (March 2006) the deposit on the jugs is about 25,000 Bolivars, and replacements with full waterjugs cost about 3,000 Bolivars (about $1.40) delivered to your home or business.