Parts of Cen­tral and South-West Trinidad cur­rent­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing low pres­sures, or in some in­stances no wa­ter sup­ply, are be­ing ad­vised that this is due to a cut­back in pro­duc­tion at the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant, ac­cord­ing to a bul­letin is­sued by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty.

WASA ex­plains that Plant—which is owned and op­er­at­ed by the De­sali­na­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DE­SAL­COTT)—nor­mal­ly sup­plies it with 40 mil­lion gal­lons of wa­ter per day (mgd).

“How­ev­er, this has been re­duced to 36 mgd,” WASA re­ports, “due to chem­i­cal dos­ing is­sues.”

WASA says it is li­ais­ing with DE­SAL­COTT re­gard­ing the sit­u­a­tion and will up­date the pub­lic in a sub­se­quent ad­vi­so­ry.

It al­so is mak­ing avail­able a lim­it­ed truck borne ser­vice up­on re­quest.

The Au­thor­i­ty has iden­ti­fied sev­er­al ar­eas cur­rent­ly be­ing af­fect­ed by the pro­duc­tion cut­back:

Ca­roni, War­renville, Cunu­pia, Ch­agua­nas, Ca­paro, Chase Vil­lage, Cou­va, Point Lisas, Cal­i­for­nia, Clax­ton Bay, Plai­sance Park, Pointe a Pierre, City of San Fer­nan­do, Vista­bel­la, Mara­bel­la, Gas­par­il­lo, South West Union Hall, Pleas­antville, Palmiste, Phillip­ine, Dun­can Vil­lage, Es­per­ance, Gulf View, Bel Air, La Ro­main, South Oropouche, Ota­heite, Rousil­lac, Aripero, parts of La Brea, Av­o­cat, Fyz­abad, parts of Siparia in­clud­ing De Gannes Vil­lage and Quar­ry Vil­lage, San Fran­cique, Debe, Syne Vil­lage, Lowkie Trace, Sun­rees Road, Mo­ra Dam Road.

For truck-borne wa­ter re­quests:

•   WASA Ser­vices App avail­able via the Play Store or Ap­ple store; or

•   Cus­tomer Por­tal avail­able on the Au­thor­i­ty’s web­site at www.wasa.gov.tt

•   WASA’s Cus­tomer Call Cen­tre toll free at 800-4420/4426.