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Sunday, July 13, 2025

WASA cites power problem for water woes in Cascade

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Elec­tri­cal prob­lems are be­ing blamed for the low wa­ter pres­sure and un­re­li­able wa­ter sup­ply to res­i­dents of Up­per Cas­cade Road.

This ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), one day af­ter the res­i­dents con­cerns were high­light­ed in a T&T Guardian re­port.

It high­light­ed com­plaints from res­i­dents in Up­per Cas­cade of an un­re­li­able truck-borne sup­ply and low wa­ter pres­sure which some of them have been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing since Feb­ru­ary.

Many of them said they had to buy bot­tled wa­ter to drink and cook and went by rel­a­tives to wash clothes and bathe.

Re­spond­ing yes­ter­day, WASA's cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er, Daniel Plen­ty, said: "Up­per Cas­cade is at the ex­trem­i­ty of the dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem served by the Ca­roni Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

"From time-to-time, is­sues in the op­er­a­tion of this sys­tem af­fect the sup­ply to those cus­tomers. Re­cent­ly, there were mi­nor dis­rup­tions at the El So­cor­ro Boost­er Sta­tion, while the Fon­cette Boost­er Sta­tion which is nec­es­sary to sup­ply the area, was af­fect­ed by a T&TEC-re­lat­ed prob­lem for a few days."

T&TEC rec­ti­fied the is­sue on Wednes­day which en­abled WASA to ini­ti­ate op­er­a­tions in the area, he added.

"The Up­per Cas­cade area is sched­uled to re­ceive a sup­ply on Mon­days and Fri­days. In the event of an in­ter­rup­tion in the nor­mal pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply, a truck-borne de­liv­ery is used to sup­ple­ment the sup­ply to af­fect­ed cus­tomers," Plen­ty said.

He said WASA was com­mit­ted to reg­u­lar­is­ing and im­prov­ing the sup­ply to cus­tomers na­tion­wide.

Plen­ty en­cour­aged res­i­dents ex­pe­ri­enc­ing prob­lems to con­tact the au­thor­i­ty and re­port it so their con­cerns could be ad­dressed in a time­ly and ef­fi­cient man­ner.


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