BY THIS WEEKEND or early next week, water starved residents of St Joseph and surrounding areas should be able to start putting away their buckets and bottles.
And even if the commissioning of the Barbados Water Authority’s (BWA) latest borehole at Sweet Vale, St George, does not deliver water at the expected rate to the troubled Castle Grant reservoir in St Joseph, the agency’s Plan B should be in full effect.
Chief executive officer of Innotech Limited, Martin DaSilva, confirmed that early on Wednesday morning they delivered a fleet of spanking new Daf water tankers to the BWA’s Pine, St Michael headquarters, each with the capacity to move 6 000 litres at a time.
This means, said corporate communications manager at the BWA Joy-Ann Haigh, that they will now have 15 regular tankers and one super tanker to move water quickly to householders wherever they are impacted by water outages. (RRM)
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