WASA has re­spond­ed to the Guardian's ar­ti­cle to­day, “Table­land res­i­dents hap­py for rain af­ter weeks with­out wa­ter."

WASA says it ac­knowl­edges that it has ex­pe­ri­enced some chal­lenges re­cent­ly, with main­tain­ing a con­sis­tent wa­ter sup­ply to some cus­tomers in parts of the Table­land area.

It says Table­land is sup­plied by the Navet Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant via the Pi­paro Boost­er Sta­tion and one of the pri­ma­ry is­sues im­pact­ing the ser­vice to the area has been in­ter­mit­tent dis­rup­tions at the Pi­paro Boost­er Sta­tion, due to volt­age fluc­tu­a­tions.

"This has been af­fect­ing the run-time of the pumps at the sta­tion, which has been neg­a­tive­ly im­pact­ing the sup­ply to cus­tomers par­tic­u­lar­ly at the high points or ex­trem­i­ties of the dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem," WASA said.

"The Au­thor­i­ty is cur­rent­ly in dis­cus­sions with T&TEC, in or­der to achieve a per­ma­nent res­o­lu­tion to the prob­lem. The Au­thor­i­ty is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the ser­vice to the area and as at Thurs­day 26th Oc­to­ber, cus­tomers in low­er parts of Man­ta­cool Road, Lo­cal Road, Kissoon Av­enue, North Trace and William­smith, were re­ceiv­ing a wa­ter sup­ply, with the pres­sures ex­pect­ed to build to reach cus­tomers in the mid to high lev­els over the com­ing 24 to 48 hours. "