The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has out­lined a se­ries of short-term mea­sures to ease wa­ter short­ages in Moru­ga/Table­land, in­clud­ing four new 30,000-gal­lon stor­age ter­mi­nals, a 5,000-gal­lon ex­pan­sion at the Marac Bap­tist Pri­ma­ry School, and com­mit­ments to strength­en pipeline in­fra­struc­ture in sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties.

The ini­tia­tives were an­nounced on Sat­ur­day as WASA’s Ex­ec­u­tive Evo­lu­tion Team, led by Act­ing CEO Jee­van Joseph, toured the con­stituen­cy along­side Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment and Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Michelle Ben­jamin.

The vis­it formed part of WASA’s on­go­ing na­tion­wide in­fra­struc­ture as­sess­ment and com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment pro­gramme, which be­gan in June.

Dur­ing the tour, the WASA team vis­it­ed sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties and out­lined spe­cif­ic in­ter­ven­tions:

● John Joe Hill, Marac: A 30,000-gal­lon stor­age ter­mi­nal will be con­struct­ed to pro­vide short-term re­lief to res­i­dents who re­main with­out ser­vice de­spite ex­ist­ing pipelines.

● La Lune Boost­er Sta­tion: The fa­cil­i­ty was in­spect­ed and ear­marked for fu­ture de­vel­op­men­tal works.

● La Sa­vanne and Corosan Road: Res­i­dents with­out pipeline in­fra­struc­ture were told they would re­ceive new 30,000-gal­lon stor­age ter­mi­nals.

● Bou­caud Trace: WASA com­mit­ted to con­struct­ing a 30,000-gal­lon ter­mi­nal and ad­vised that the com­ple­tion of the GP Road Pipeline Project — 6.8 km of new trans­mis­sion line — would sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­crease sup­ply to the area.

● First Branch Road: A 30,000-gal­lon stor­age ter­mi­nal was promised fol­low­ing com­plaints of no pipeline in­fra­struc­ture.

● HDC Gomez Trace Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment: Of­fi­cials re­spond­ed to com­plaints about a mal­func­tion­ing waste­water treat­ment plant and pledged to work with the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion to re­solve the is­sue.

WASA said the mea­sures are in­tend­ed to pro­vide short-term re­lief, while the wider in­fra­struc­ture as­sess­ment iden­ti­fies long-term so­lu­tions for com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

At the con­clu­sion of the tour, MP Ben­jamin said:

“I thank the Act­ing CEO and of­fi­cials for their ded­i­ca­tion to un­der­stand­ing the crit­i­cal is­sues our com­mu­ni­ties face. Their com­mit­ment to im­ple­ment­ing both im­me­di­ate and long-term so­lu­tions is a wel­come de­vel­op­ment for the peo­ple of Moru­ga/Table­land.”

Sat­ur­day’s vis­it marked the 11th stop in WASA’s coun­try­wide pro­gramme, which is fo­cus­ing on un­der­served com­mu­ni­ties to de­ter­mine in­fra­struc­ture re­quire­ments, con­sumer de­mand, and op­por­tu­ni­ties for fu­ture up­grades.