While peo­ple were cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas, there was no cel­e­bra­tion for vil­lagers of Brazil as they had no wa­ter in their taps for al­most three weeks.

Res­i­dents said their homes were not cleaned, clothes were not washed, prop­er Christ­mas meals were not cooked, no dec­o­ra­tions were placed in homes and some were un­able to bathe prop­er­ly.

Kei­th Jen­nings, spokesper­son for the vil­lagers of Brazil said there was no wa­ter in the Vil­lage since be­fore Christ­mas.

He added that sev­er­al calls were made to WASA to have their pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply re­turn, but their hopes were shat­tered, as WASA of­fi­cials kept say­ing “to­mor­row the wa­ter will re­turn”.

He said, “To­day is Fri­day and the fes­tive sea­son has come and gone and we are still with­out a wa­ter sup­ply.”

Jen­nings said some res­i­dents had to pur­chase wa­ter, oth­ers used their ve­hi­cles to get wa­ter to their homes, while he said oth­ers had to fetch wa­ter from a spring, which he said is “pol­lut­ed by toi­lets waste run­ning in­to the spring.”

Jen­nings said he was un­aware as to whether or not the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment or the Coun­cil­lor are both aware of the prob­lem.

He added res­i­dents are still re­ceiv­ing wa­ter bills from WASA for what he called an “un­re­li­able ser­vice.”

Vi­jay Pit­na, a vil­lager of Brazil told Guardian Me­dia that this is the first time wa­ter has been “locked off” for such a long pe­ri­od in the area and un­for­tu­nate­ly for the Christ­mas Sea­son.

He said de­spite calls to WASA, no one an­swered.

Pit­na added over 400 chil­dren in Brazil and their moth­ers are at risk of dis­eases, be­cause of the lack of wa­ter.

An­oth­er res­i­dent taxi dri­ver David Matthew said he could not work for Christ­mas “be­cause he could not bathe.”

He said on Thurs­day “we got wa­ter-low pres­sure and it gone again.”

Matthew said he was told that there was some me­chan­i­cal prob­lem at the North Oropouche Dam from which they get their wa­ter sup­ply and un­der­stands that it will take about sev­en more days to have the prob­lem solved.

WASA’s Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Man­ag­er Daniel Plen­ty said the wa­ter sit­u­a­tion is re­lat­ed to the plant at North Oropouche hav­ing a me­chan­i­cal prob­lem, which is the cause of the wa­ter dis­rup­tion in Brazil. Plen­ty said emer­gency works are un­der­way and should be com­plet­ed soon.