The Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant will be shut down from No­vem­ber 27th to De­cem­ber 3rd. Ac­cord­ing to a press re­lease from WASA, this is to fa­cil­i­tate main­te­nance works.

The shut­down will most­ly im­pact the pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply to ar­eas in Cen­tral and South Trinidad. The De­sal­cott owned and op­er­at­ed plant, pro­vides 40 mil­lion gal­lons dai­ly to WASA, which is used to sup­ply the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, as well as aug­ment the sup­ply to ar­eas in Cen­tral and South Trinidad.

To mit­i­gate the ef­fects of this sup­ply short­fall on op­er­a­tions, the Au­thor­i­ty will im­ple­ment the fol­low­ing mea­sures dur­ing the pe­ri­od of shut­down: In­creased pro­duc­tion and re-dis­tri­b­u­tion of sup­ply from the Ca­roni and Navet Wa­ter Treat­ment Plants;

Im­ple­men­ta­tion of tem­po­rary sup­ply sched­ules;

En­sure ca­pac­i­ty stor­age at crit­i­cal ser­vice reser­voirs;

In­creased wa­ter truck­ing ca­pac­i­ty;

Spe­cial em­pha­sis and arrange­ments to sup­ply schools, health in­sti­tu­tions, homes for aged and oth­er spe­cial needs or­ga­ni­za­tions.

Some of the af­fect­ed ar­eas will in­clude: Ca­roni, St. He­le­na, Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, Cunu­pia, Cara­pichaima, Cou­va, Clax­ton Bay, Mara­bel­la, Gas­par­il­lo, San Fer­nan­do, Co­coyea, Union Hall, La Ro­maine, Wood­land, Palmiste, Phillip­ine, Ram­bert Vil­lage, South Oropouche, Fyz­abad, Av­o­cat, Siparia, Pe­nal, San Fran­cique, Rousil­lac, Aripero, La Brea.

Cus­tomers are ad­vised to main­tain/es­tab­lish a sys­tem of stor­age over the pe­ri­od of the shut­down and to al­so man­age their wa­ter use ef­fi­cient­ly by re­duc­ing con­sump­tion. This can be done by elim­i­nat­ing in­ef­fi­cient prac­tices, as well as re­pair­ing leaks and over­flow­ing wa­ter tanks at home and in busi­ness places.