The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says there is still a need to main­tain strict con­ser­va­tion mea­sures giv­en the pro­longed im­pact of the harsh 2019 Dry Sea­son and the cur­rent dri­er than nor­mal Wet Sea­son.

WASA says that three months in­to the Wet Sea­son, its main im­pound­ing reser­voirs are yet to show any sig­nif­i­cant re­cov­ery, de­spite what may be con­sid­ered sub­stan­tial rain­fall at oth­er lo­ca­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The state­ment says the lev­els of stor­age and re­spec­tive Long Term Av­er­ages (LTAs) at WASA’s four main im­pound­ing reser­voirs as at to­day – Mon­day 2nd Sep­tem­ber 2019 are as fol­lows:

· Are­na: 46.51%, LTA - 69.29%

· Navet: 32.59%, LTA - 70.25%

· Hol­lis: 22.77%, LTA - 68.85%

· Hills­bor­ough: 55.60%, LTA - 69.17%

"It is im­por­tant to note that over the month of Au­gust, while rain­fall lev­els at Are­na and Hills­bor­ough Reser­voirs were con­sis­tent with the LTAs, the Hol­lis and Navet Reser­voirs re­ceived deficits in rain­fall of 85.6 mm and 113.8 mm re­spec­tive­ly, when com­pared to the LTAs at these lo­ca­tions. As a di­rect con­se­quence of this sit­u­a­tion, pro­duc­tion lev­els at both the Hol­lis and Navet Wa­ter Treat­ment Plants (WTPs) are still be­ing main­tained at ap­prox­i­mate­ly half of their ca­pac­i­ty," the WASA state­ment says.

It adds: "In light of this, cus­tomers in parts of Ari­ma and D’Abadie (served by the Hol­lis WTP), as well as parts of Table­land, New Grant, Princes Town and Ma­yaro (served by the Navet WTP) will con­tin­ue to ex­pe­ri­ence a re­duced reg­u­lar­i­ty of pipeborne wa­ter sup­ply. The Au­thor­i­ty, how­ev­er re­as­sures af­fect­ed cus­tomers of its com­mit­ment to work­ing with lo­cal gov­ern­ment and oth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives, to­wards pro­vid­ing a sup­ple­men­tal truck borne wa­ter sup­ply to cus­tomers in the af­fect­ed ar­eas."

WASA is en­cour­ag­ing cus­tomers and mem­bers of the pub­lic to main­tain strin­gent wa­ter con­ser­va­tion mea­sures by on­ly us­ing wa­ter as re­quired.

"It should al­so be not­ed that the tem­po­rary wa­ter sup­ply sched­ules, as well as the wa­ter use re­stric­tions im­posed in Jan­u­ary 2019, re­main in place un­til fur­ther no­tice," it says, adding, "The wa­ter use re­stric­tions re­fer to the use of wa­ter sup­plied through a hosepipe or sim­i­lar ap­pa­ra­tus for the pur­pose of wa­ter­ing gar­dens or wash­ing mo­tor ve­hi­cles, sprin­klers, pres­sure wash­ers, dec­o­ra­tive foun­tains, wa­ter­falls and oth­er out­door artis­tic fea­tures that uti­lize wa­ter."