00:00A day after Robert Village Tableland residents complained to the media about not receiving a pipe-borne supply of water
00:07for seven weeks straight, they have been promised assistance.
00:11Minister in the Public Utilities Ministry, Clyde Elder, acknowledges the issues outlined by the residents.
00:17I want to start by saying, first of all, that certainly we apologize to the people, and not just in
00:23Tableland, but throughout Trinidad and Tobago, they have had issues with water supply for quite some time.
00:28Those issues started the last 10 months, those issues were there for the last 10 years, if not more, and
00:33they have not been addressed.
00:34But as the resident indicated earlier on, it's aging infrastructure that is causing most of the problem.
00:41Elder says the aim is to get water flowing more frequently in the taps of these residents, who have indicated
00:47that both their households and businesses are suffering.
00:50It certainly cannot be every day, but we do our best to ensure that we get a more readily supply
00:56of water available to them, so that they can do their normal household chores, cooking, washing, and bathing, what have
01:02you.
01:03Everybody deserves that. I mean, that's the least they can ask for.
01:06Elder says an ongoing landslide in the area has resulted in a pipeline being condemned, and so Robert Village residents
01:13are on a long service supply.
01:15But with leaks in the network, and the community at the end of the distribution system, the problem is exacerbated.
01:23WASA has come up with a plan to mitigate the situation.
01:26Our plans here are very shortly, just to stay this piece of pipe pipe, right, so that the water system
01:33will come together.
01:34It's possible, it's possible.
01:36So now, as we look towards the formation, we're going to try to pipe pipe.
01:41But resident Harry Lal Rambajan has taken the opportunity to voice his frustration to WASA about its truck-borne service,
01:50from the quantity to the process.
01:5212,000 KW cannot proceed in this home, it's for seven years.
01:59If I say all this, I would like to request to you, I have 2,400 KW per week.
02:08I will only accept that and nothing else.
02:10He also questions why residents have to call in to receive a trouble on supply when WASA knows the problem
02:16in the area.
02:17WASA says it is part of the policy that a request must be made.
02:22Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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