WASCO announces nearly 100 percent water supply but conservation advised
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WASCO announces nearly 100 percent water supply but conservation advised |
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Contact: Claudia Monlouis
Thursday, January 20, 2011 – The Water and Sewerage Company—WASCO—continues—to stress the importance of the storage of pipe-borne water, even as the water supply has been restored to more than 90 percent of the island.
Managing Director John Joseph says the restoration of the municipal supply does not mean that householders or the corporate sector should relax their responsibility of ensuring that there is clean water stored in reasonable quantities.
This caution was reiterated at WASCO's recent press conference to update consumers on the status of repair and recovery works that has been undertaken since the passage of Hurricane Tomas at the end of October.
The disaster left much of the island's water infrastructure including the John Compton dam severely damaged.
The company's Managing Director John Joseph says though 90 percent of the country already has access to potable water, the company is still conducting pipeline-testing and other works related to the recovery after the hurricane.
Asked how WASCO may cope in the event of another water crisis Manager of WASCO John Joseph had this response:
“Our visual investigations of the dam suggest that we do not have the amount [of water] Thursday, January 20, 2011 that we had last year and so if we are going to be rationing the supply it will be a lot more stringent rationing to take us through a long period. I think we should always be conserving water. I think we should be on guard, always conserving water, I think we should be very vigilant of storage, our personal storage as well.”
Mr. Joseph says there are still challenges being addressed in the Ciceron area where some broken pipelines exist. He says WASCO is optimistic that this situation will be resolved by next week.
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