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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Emergency shutdown at Point Lisas Desalination Plant

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Point Lisas Desalination Plant. Image courtesy Desalcott.

Point Lisas Desalination Plant. Image courtesy Desalcott.

Parts of Cen­tral and South-West Trinidad cur­rent­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing low wa­ter pres­sures or no wa­ter sup­plies be­cause of emer­gency main­te­nance works present­ly on­go­ing at the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty, this morn­ing.

WASA is en­cour­ag­ing cus­tomers to man­age their wa­ter use ef­fi­cient­ly, as it may take up to 48 hours for the sup­ply to nor­mal­ize to some af­fect­ed ar­eas, af­ter the Plant re­turns to full op­er­a­tion.

The Au­thor­i­ty al­so is giv­ing as­sur­ances that a lim­it­ed truck-borne wa­ter ser­vice will be avail­able with pri­or­i­ty giv­en to spe­cial homes, health care and gov­ern­ment in­sti­tu­tions.

The WASA ad­vi­so­ry ex­plains that the De­sali­na­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DE­SAL­COTT) owned and op­er­at­ed Plant is in the process of as­sess­ing and car­ry­ing out the re­quired main­te­nance works; how­ev­er, a com­ple­tion time is not avail­able at present. WASA is in con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the com­pa­ny and will pro­vide a fur­ther up­date on when the Plant will re­turn to ser­vice, as soon as this in­for­ma­tion be­comes avail­able.

The DE­SAL­COTT plant nor­mal­ly sup­plies WASA with 40 mil­lion gal­lons of wa­ter per day (mgd).

Ar­eas af­fect­ed in­clude:

Cen­tral Trinidad — Ca­roni, War­renville, Cunu­pia, Ch­agua­nas, Ca­paro, Chase vil­lage, Cou­va, Pt Lisas, Cal­i­for­nia, Clax­ton Bay, Plai­sance Park, Pointe a Pierre, City of San Fer­nan­do, Vista­bel­la, Mara­bel­la, Gas­par­il­lo

South-West Trinidad — Union Hall, Pleas­antville, Palmiste, Phillip­ine, Dun­can Vil­lage, Es­per­ance, Gulf View, Bel Air, La Ro­main, South Oropouche, Ota­heite, Rousil­lac, Aripero, parts of La Brea, Av­o­cat, Fyz­abad, parts of Siparia in­clud­ing De Gannes Vil­lage and Quar­ry Vil­lage, San Fran­cique, Debe, Syne Vil­lage, Lowkie Trace, Sun­rees Road, Mo­ra Dam Road.

For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion or as­sis­tance, cus­tomers are en­cour­aged to con­tact WASA’s Cus­tomer Call Cen­tre toll free at 800-4420 and 800-4426.


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