This means that the current Minister of Public Utilities was the top public servant dealing with WASA for many years. As such, he would have received technical reports from the utility on the need to upgrade its filtration system. As the PS in the Ministry of Public Utilities, it was the responsibility of Mr George to provide policy advice to the various ministers he served under-especially advice in an area as important as ensuring that the filtration system remains fully functional. Did Minister George, when he was PS George, make a recommendation to a Minister of Public Utilities for an emergency subvention to fix WASA's filtration problem? It needs to be stated that it would only have been the responsibility of the permanent secretary to offer advice. It would have been up to the ministers to determine exactly how that money was spent. The final responsibility for the expenditure of money in our system rests the politicians. It should go without saying that having raised a public alarm over the possible deterioration in the quality of our drinking water, that the minister would act expeditiously in resolving this problem. It should go without saying that a minister with so much technocratic experience of public utilities would ensure that the problem never reoccurs.