KINGSTON - Scores of residents from several Corporate Area communities were on Sunday bracing themselves for possible plans by the National Water Commission (NWC) to impose further water restrictions in areas across the Corporate Area yesterday.

The residents, many of whom claimed that they were barely surviving on limited water supplies, said that they had reached a point of desperation.

Residents gather at a spring in Gordon Town to bathe and collect water.

"People are barely getting by with the already limited resource, can you imagine what will now happen if further restrictions are implemented?" lamented Pauline Saddler, a senior citizen from the August Town community.

The National Water Commission (NWC), in a Press release, stated that as part of the ongoing water management, measures to combat the prevailing drought conditions affecting the water supply system mainly in southern parishes of the island, the new restrictions would have to come into effect.

"Because the NWC can only provide the water that it has, this will result in severe shortages in some areas, regardless of the distribution regime that NWC puts in place," Michael Dunn, NWC vice president said.

(Jamaica Observer)