Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray has made an ur­gent call for WASA to ad­dress what he called the con­stituen­cy’s lin­ger­ing wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion is­sues.

In a state­ment this morn­ing Paray said, “Once again, the in­ef­fi­cien­cies of WASA, stem­ming from un­re­solved en­gi­neer­ing chal­lenges, have dis­rupt­ed wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion in the Ma­yaro Con­stituen­cy. To­day, in my ca­pac­i­ty as the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, I wish to ex­press my un­wa­ver­ing sup­port for the ac­tions ini­ti­at­ed by the res­i­dents of Union and its neigh­bour­ing com­mu­ni­ties in re­sponse to these per­sis­tent wa­ter is­sues.”

MP Paray re­ferred to a protest which oc­curred at Bris­tol Vil­lage this morn­ing.

He said the San Pe­dro Boost­er has been a prob­lem­at­ic source, with WASA grap­pling with acute pres­sure com­pli­ca­tions, mak­ing it ar­du­ous to en­sure wa­ter reach­es Ma­yaro and its ad­join­ing com­mu­ni­ties.

MP Paray said de­spite his con­sis­tent ap­peals over sev­er­al months, im­plor­ing WASA to bol­ster the quan­ti­ty and reg­u­lar­i­ty of Wa­ter Truck­ing Ser­vices to com­pen­sate for these dis­tri­b­u­tion chal­lenges, the re­sponse has been, re­gret­tably, lack­lus­tre. “Fur­ther, my con­tin­u­ous en­gage­ment with the Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, urg­ing for an as­sertive ap­proach and al­lo­ca­tion of funds for the trio of projects pin­point­ed al­most two years pri­or, aimed at rec­ti­fy­ing the wa­ter predica­ments in Ma­yaro, has yet to see con­crete ac­tion.”

He said these projects en­com­pass op­er­a­tional­is­ing the Petro Guaya Ser­vice, com­mis­sion­ing a new Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant, draw­ing from the Or­toire Riv­er and lay­ing down a nov­el 14" line stretch­ing from Navet to Table­land, which would fa­cil­i­tate un­in­ter­rupt­ed ac­cess of the ex­ist­ing line to Rio Claro.

“ It's time for the Min­is­ter to dis­play res­olute com­mit­ment, en­sur­ing these projects tran­si­tion from mere pro­pos­als to tan­gi­ble so­lu­tions for the Ma­yaro Con­stituen­cy. Con­cur­rent­ly, I urge WASA to em­brace and im­ple­ment the Wa­ter Truck­ing Plan I pro­posed over a year ago. Let's work col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly to en­sure the peo­ple of Ma­yaro no longer en­dure the hard­ships of wa­ter scarci­ty.”