SHAS­TRI BOODAN

Res­i­dents and small busi­ness op­er­a­tors at Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, say their pa­tience with the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has al­most drained. 

Sacha Mo­hammed, spokesper­son for the com­mu­ni­ty who al­so op­er­ates a food busi­ness, told Guardian Me­dia re­cent pipe lay­ing op­er­a­tions by WASA start­ed cre­at­ing a mas­sive dust prob­lem in the area.

Mo­hammed said not on­ly are busi­ness­es af­fect­ed but al­so the health of many vil­lagers, who have to now find mon­ey for med­ica­tion to treat their breath­ing prob­lems. 

The com­mu­ni­ty spokesper­son al­so ob­served that the pipe lay­ing project ap­pears to have been aban­doned since no work has been done for the last three weeks.

Guardian Me­dia reached out to Wen­dell Eti­enne of WASA’s Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit, who gave as­sur­ances the project has not been aban­doned.

“There was some dif­fi­cul­ty ac­quir­ing ma­te­ri­als over the hol­i­day sea­son,” he re­port­ed.

The WASA of­fi­cial as­sured: “This has since been re­solved.”