A stench that sickens

GIVEN THE WATER woes many people have been encountering across Barbados throughout this year, an abundance of water may seem like a good thing.

However, this is not the case for many residents of the south coast. That abundance of water has been a curse as sewage from the South Coast Sewage Treatment Plant seems to have seeped out.

Heavy showers last weekend and early this week left most of Highway 7 along Hastings and Worthing flooded.

Days after most of that water from those showers subsided, foul-smelling, “sewage-like” water from underground continued to bubble up from manholes, settling in any pools around that area. (AD)

Please read the full story in today’s Weekend Nation, or in the eNATION edition.