The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has strong­ly con­demned the re­cent acts of van­dal­ism and theft tar­get­ing its in­fra­struc­ture in the Gas­par­il­lo area, which have se­vere­ly dis­rupt­ed wa­ter sup­ply to sev­er­al res­i­dents.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, WASA said be­tween March 31 and April 1, over 34 res­i­den­tial con­nec­tions in San Fabi­an, Rawl­ings Av­enue, Recre­ation Ground, PRV Good­man Trace, Bhag­wans­ingh Trace, and Spring­land’s Third and Fourth Streets were van­dalised, with brass fit­tings and ser­vice lines stolen.

It said these crim­i­nal acts left af­fect­ed cus­tomers with­out a re­li­able wa­ter sup­ply, forc­ing the au­thor­i­ty to pri­ori­tise emer­gency re­pairs while sup­port­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions. 

The state­ment said dur­ing in­spec­tions, WASA per­son­nel dis­cov­ered a pipe-cut­ting de­vice on Bhag­wans­ingh Road, which has been hand­ed over to the Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice and the Foren­sic De­part­ment for analy­sis. 

WASA said it is work­ing close­ly with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to en­sure those re­spon­si­ble face the full brunt of the law. “These reck­less acts not on­ly in­con­ve­nience cus­tomers but al­so di­vert crit­i­cal re­sources from ser­vic­ing le­git­i­mate needs. We urge the pub­lic to re­port any sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty near WASA in­fra­struc­ture to the po­lice or our Cus­tomer Con­tact Cen­tre at 800-4420/4426.”

WASA re­as­sured cus­tomers that re­pairs were un­der­way and thanked the com­mu­ni­ty for their pa­tience. WASA said it re­mained com­mit­ted to safe­guard­ing its as­sets and en­sur­ing eq­ui­table ser­vice.