WASA has an­nounced a se­ries of in­fra­struc­ture up­grades aimed at im­prov­ing wa­ter sup­ply for over 300,000 res­i­dents in north-east Trinidad.

How­ev­er, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is claim­ing the works are not new and ac­tu­al­ly be­gan un­der the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the au­thor­i­ty said the projects in­clued:

• Ex­pand­ing the Gua­napo Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant from 3.5 to 5.5 mil­lion gal­lons per day

• Re­plac­ing stor­age tanks at the North Oropouche fa­cil­i­ty

• ↓Build­ing a new 12 mil­lion gal­lon-per-day plant in Saly­bia/Matu­ra

• De­vel­op­ing a new well in San­gre Grande to pro­duce 0.5 mil­lion gal­lons per day

• Re­fur­bish­ing the Cu­mu­to plant and drilling two new wells

• Con­struct­ing a new boost­er sta­tion in Coryal

Some com­mu­ni­ties cur­rent­ly re­ceiv­ing lit­tle or no wa­ter are ex­pect­ed to get a min­i­mum of 24/3 ser­vice, with some mov­ing to 24/7 sup­ply.

The au­thor­i­ty said dur­ing a site tour on Ju­ly 5, act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Jee­van Joseph said the up­grades are part of the util­i­ty’s push to de­liv­er projects on time and sup­port the Gov­ern­ment’s goal of fair and re­li­able wa­ter ac­cess.

How­ev­er, the PNM is ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-Gov­ern­ment of tak­ing cred­it for projects that be­gan un­der the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion.

But for­mer com­mu­ni­ca­tions min­is­ter Symon de No­bri­ga said the work did not start with the new ad­min­is­tra­tion. In a tweet, he wrote,

“Gua­napo & North Oropouche wa­ter up­grades:

Start­ed: Feb ‘25, Com­ple­tion: Dec ‘25, 200K+ cit­i­zens to ben­e­fit.

“I was there. We doc­u­ment­ed it all but the UNC purged the ev­i­dence from of­fi­cial Govt pages. You can delete posts but not the truth.”

The next set of fa­cil­i­ty tours is sched­uled for Cen­tral on Ju­ly 12 and To­ba­go on Ju­ly 17.