Af­ter Hur­ri­cane Beryl's pas­sage, 13 Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty's wa­ter treat­ment plants were ful­ly re­stored and four oth­ers were ex­pect­ed to be back in op­er­a­tion by 6 pm yes­ter­day. Elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply was al­so to be re­stored to a few ar­eas in To­ba­go by 6 pm yes­ter­day as well.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les gave an up­date in the Sen­ate yes­ter­day re­spond­ing to ques­tions by Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Wade Mark on ac­tions be­ing tak­en by WASA and T&TEC to ex­pe­dite restora­tion of ser­vices to com­mu­ni­ties af­fect­ed by the hur­ri­cane's pas­sage.

Gon­za­les com­mend­ed first re­spon­ders from agen­cies in­volved who were ful­ly mo­bilised to pro­vide sup­port to com­mu­ni­ties which he said "may and could have been" se­ri­ous­ly im­pact­ed by the hur­ri­cane.

Gon­za­les said agen­cies which fall un­der his min­istry and those from oth­er State agen­cies, "Have been out do­ing great work pro­vid­ing sup­port to all gov­ern­ment agen­cies and as a re­sult of that, I'm pleased to re­port that from the Pub­lic Util­i­ties sec­tor, 13 of WASA's plants have been ful­ly re­stored to full op­er­a­tion with four plants out of op­er­a­tion and we ex­pect those plants would be ful­ly re­stored by 6 pm, to­day (Tues­day)."

"With re­spect to T&TEC, I'm al­so pleased to re­port that in Trinidad all ar­eas that have been im­pact­ed by se­vere weath­er con­di­tions, their elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply has been ful­ly re­stored and in To­ba­go 98 per cent of the af­fect­ed ar­eas, elec­tric­i­ty ser­vices have been ful­ly re­stored and we ex­pect by 6 pm to­day (Tues­day) the ar­eas that have been out of elec­tric­i­ty, they'd be ful­ly re­stored," he added.

On whether ad­di­tion­al wa­ter-truck­ing ser­vices will be pro­vid­ed to ar­eas left with­out a sup­ply due to wa­ter treat­ment plans not op­er­at­ing, Gon­za­les said WASA's call cen­tre was op­er­at­ing 24 hours to pro­vide help.