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Improved Water Supply for St. Lucia's North
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Improved Water Supply for St. Lucia's North
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Contact:
John
Emmanuel
Friday, February
02, 2001
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The St. Lucia Water and Sewerage Company (WASCO) is building capacity to satisfy
long-term growth in demand for water in the capital, Castries, and the rapidly
developing north of the island. Next
Tuesday, February 6, 2001, WASCO will take delivery of a new water treatment
plant at Ciceron,
built with World Bank financing to the tune of US$3.9 million. The T. R.
Theobalds Water Treatment Plant, as it will be officially named, will greatly
increase the volume of water being treated for distribution to households and
commercial houses in the north. As a result, interruptions in the water supply
will become a thing of the past. “The
new system consists of two new concrete tanks that will improve the supply of
treated water to the northern part of the island by 4.5 million litres of
water,” said Michael Gittens, Programme Planning Officer in the Ministry of
Planning. He
added: “It is all part of a programme to improve the distribution system from
the Roseau dam. The dam feeds raw untreated water and one of the major processes
was to improve the treatment of that water so that we can distribute it to the
northern portion of the island.” The Ministry of Planning oversaw the construction of the plant. Government, with help from WASCO, is putting down a pipeline that will help in distributing water from the new plant to the north, home to two-thirds of St. Lucia’s population. It is also St Lucia’s tourist belt with the largest concentration of hotels. |
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