Elec­tric­i­ty has been re­stored and wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion re­sumed to those ar­eas across the coun­try bad­ly af­fect­ed by the weath­er sys­tem last week, which af­fect­ed in­fra­struc­ture be­long­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) and the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Ac­cord­ing to an up­date from the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, as of 10:00 am to­day, Sep­tem­ber 6th, all out­ages re­lat­ing to the Sep­tem­ber 3rd ad­verse weath­er sys­tem, have sub­stan­tial­ly been re­stored.

“For T&TEC, a to­tal of 421 small and large out­ages through­out the Com­mis­sion’s Trans­mis­sion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work have been re­stored, with less than 15 in­di­vid­ual re­ports still out­stand­ing which are be­ing ad­dressed at this time,” the Min­istry re­ports.

“In the case of WASA, the op­er­a­tions of its 32 af­fect­ed wa­ter treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties have al­so been re­stored. Cus­tomers are re­mind­ed that it may take up to 24 hours for ser­vice to be nor­malised across the dis­tri­b­u­tion grid,” the Min­istry not­ed.

It added: “While the ser­vice dis­rup­tions were un­avoid­able, both WASA and T&TEC are mind­ful of their man­date and oblig­a­tions to the cit­i­zens. Their com­mit­ment to pro­vide safe and re­li­able util­i­ty ser­vices re­mains para­mount. The Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties ex­press­es its grat­i­tude to all cit­i­zens for their pa­tience over the last days.”

The ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry al­so in­clud­ed a com­men­da­tion from Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Mar­vin Gon­za­les MP, “to all the em­ploy­ees of WASA, TTEC and The Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vices Di­vi­sion for their hard work and com­mit­ment to du­ty, dis­played in sta­bi­liz­ing and restor­ing the avail­abil­i­ty of util­i­ty ser­vices to the cit­i­zens.”