HOUSEHOLDERS, businesses and schools in some eastern parishes continue to endure dry taps on most days because of extremely low water levels at the Golden Ridge reservoir in St George and at Castle Grant in St Joseph.
So serious is the situation that according to reports, education officials have been up in arms about the number of schools which have been forced to close early because of a lack of water.
Grantley Adams Memorial School in Blackmans, St Joseph, was forced to send home students early last Friday and on Monday, as it did not even have water in its tanks.
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