Dear Editor,
I reside in Black River, St Elizabeth, and I am a paying customer of the National Water Commission (NWC).
On Monday, May 26, 2015, I was advised by an engineer with a truckload of workmen from the NWC that residents would be without water for four days because they were going to engage in maintenance work for the area. The supply was cut off on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, which means that we should have had water running from our taps back on Saturday, May 30, 2015.
Another resident of the area contacted Jermaine Jackson, who is the water production manager at NWC, via e-mail on Wednesday, May 27, 2015, because he was told another story that the service would be restored to the area in six days' time; that would bring the restoration date to Monday, June 1, 2015.
This letter was written on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, and our taps are still dry, which means that we have been without water for seven whole days now, because it was reported that some NWC workers decided to strike in the process.
You can imagine that even customers who have large tanks are now suffering as those tanks cannot now supply enough water for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and other domestic purposes.
It is even more burdensome on residents, like myself, who have no tank, but have to resort to the conventional plastic drums. If it weren't for the little rain that fell on Saturday afternoon, then we would be worse off.
The NWC has been carrying on with their slackness for years in Black River. They lock off the supply at least three times per week without any notice to customers; even on an important day like Sunday when the majority of customers are reasonably expected to be at home.
It appears that because Black River is not Kingston, then the NWC feels that it has no obligation to adequately inform its customers when they are going to interrupt the supply and when it is expected to return.
I am calling on the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and Robert Pickersgill, the water minister, to immediately address this plight being faced by residents of Black River. We need water in our taps now!
The NWC, OUR and the Government, by extension, cannot seem to do anything right; just Third World governance and slackness going on in this country. It must stop!
Abigail F Williams
Black River, St Elizabeth
abigail_fw79@yahoo.com
No water for 7 days!
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I reside in Black River, St Elizabeth, and I am a paying customer of the National Water Commission (NWC).
On Monday, May 26, 2015, I was advised by an engineer with a truckload of workmen from the NWC that residents would be without water for four days because they were going to engage in maintenance work for the area. The supply was cut off on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, which means that we should have had water running from our taps back on Saturday, May 30, 2015.
Another resident of the area contacted Jermaine Jackson, who is the water production manager at NWC, via e-mail on Wednesday, May 27, 2015, because he was told another story that the service would be restored to the area in six days' time; that would bring the restoration date to Monday, June 1, 2015.
This letter was written on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, and our taps are still dry, which means that we have been without water for seven whole days now, because it was reported that some NWC workers decided to strike in the process.
You can imagine that even customers who have large tanks are now suffering as those tanks cannot now supply enough water for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and other domestic purposes.
It is even more burdensome on residents, like myself, who have no tank, but have to resort to the conventional plastic drums. If it weren't for the little rain that fell on Saturday afternoon, then we would be worse off.
The NWC has been carrying on with their slackness for years in Black River. They lock off the supply at least three times per week without any notice to customers; even on an important day like Sunday when the majority of customers are reasonably expected to be at home.
It appears that because Black River is not Kingston, then the NWC feels that it has no obligation to adequately inform its customers when they are going to interrupt the supply and when it is expected to return.
I am calling on the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and Robert Pickersgill, the water minister, to immediately address this plight being faced by residents of Black River. We need water in our taps now!
The NWC, OUR and the Government, by extension, cannot seem to do anything right; just Third World governance and slackness going on in this country. It must stop!
Abigail F Williams
Black River, St Elizabeth
abigail_fw79@yahoo.com
No water for 7 days!
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