De­sal­cott has ad­vised WASA of a planned shut­down of its Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant for a pe­ri­od of nine days from Oc­to­ber 16-24 to fa­cil­i­tate main­te­nance works.

WASA says this planned shut­down will have a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on the au­thor­i­ty’s over­all sup­ply po­si­tion in Trinidad.

In or­der to mit­i­gate the ef­fects of this sup­ply short­fall on its op­er­a­tions, WASA said the fol­low­ing will be im­ple­ment­ed:

• Re-dis­tri­b­u­tion of sup­ply from the Ca­roni and Navet Wa­ter Treat­ment Plants

• Im­ple­men­ta­tion of tem­po­rary sup­ply sched­ules (This will be pub­lished on the au­thor­i­ty’s so­cial me­dia pages: Face­book, In­sta­gram, What­sApp Chan­nel and X)

• En­sure ca­pac­i­ty stor­age at crit­i­cal ser­vice reser­voirs

• In­creased wa­ter truck­ing ca­pac­i­ty

• Spe­cial em­pha­sis and arrange­ments to sup­ply schools, health in­sti­tu­tions, homes for aged and oth­er spe­cial needs or­gan­i­sa­tions

• Ac­cel­er­at­ed re­sponse to leak re­pair. Cus­tomers are ad­vised to main­tain/es­tab­lish a sys­tem of stor­age over the pe­ri­od of the shut­down and to al­so man­age their wa­ter use ef­fi­cient­ly, by re­duc­ing con­sump­tion through the ob­ser­va­tion of wa­ter con­ser­va­tion prac­tices. Af­fect­ed cus­tomers are ad­vised that a lim­it­ed truck-borne ser­vice is avail­able up­on re­quest. This can be re­quest­ed through the fol­low­ing self-ser­vice op­tions:

• WASA Ser­vices App avail­able via the Play Store or Ap­ple store; or Cus­tomer Por­tal avail­able on the au­thor­i­ty’s web­site.