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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Tank sales slow ahead Desal Plant shutdown

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Darren Bahaw
2746 days ago
20180112

Debra Wanser

Judg­ing by the slow sale of wa­ter stor­age tanks, it is doubt­ful that peo­ple are tak­ing heed of the call by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty to store ad­di­tion­al wa­ter in light of the planned shut­down of the de­sali­na­tion plant, hard­ware own­ers said yes­ter­day.

The plant is sched­uled to be down for main­te­nance works from Mon­day to next week Sat­ur­day. All parts of South and Cen­tral Trinidad will be af­fect­ed and WASA said it will in­crease its wa­ter truck­ing ca­pac­i­ty dur­ing that pe­ri­od.

At Hard­ware Sup­plies in Dun­can Vil­lage, a sales work­er said wa­ter tank sales have been slow.

Sales su­per­vi­sor at Dansteel Ltd, Gookool Ma­habir al­so said there was no rush by cus­tomers to stock up on wa­ter tanks.

“I think last year when peo­ple were hear­ing of a drought, they start­ed to stock up on stor­age tanks. Back then we were or­der­ing ad­di­tion­al tanks but we haven’t pur­chased ex­tra tanks this year be­cause the de­mand is just not there,” Gookool said.

He said the down­turn in the econ­o­my and the fact that peo­ple did not have mon­ey af­ter the Christ­mas hol­i­days pos­si­bly con­tributed to the low sales. (RDS)


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