{"id":213754,"date":"2024-10-12T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=213754"},"modified":"2024-10-12T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T13:45:17","slug":"letter-what-is-the-real-reason-we-do-not-have-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-what-is-the-real-reason-we-do-not-have-water\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: What is the REAL reason we do not have water?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been a week since I’ve had consistent water. Prior to this marathon of no water, it has been off at least one day a week for about a month. This seems regressive to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, we heard we did not have water because of a drought, our surface water had dried, and of course, this was believable because we could clearly tell no rain had fallen for some time.<\/p>

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However, we boast of 365 beaches, so what about using the reverse osmosis plants? We heard the RO plants could not produce the capacity we needed. So, investments were allegedly made to increase the RO plant network.<\/p>

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Oh, then another problem, the pipes are poorly maintained, so we had higher-than-average leakage. The pipes were then to be repaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, fine, but still\u2026 problems.<\/p>

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We have officially been out of a drought for some time, according to our local experts, despite their opinion being termed “mistaken” by a government official. Most of us, however, can tell the drought has long been past, but with surface water somewhat replenished and more RO plants on stream, problems still abound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the water at the plant at Crabbs is low\u2026 why? Is it underproducing? We went through this earlier this year as well.<\/p>

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What exactly is the problem now? A change in general manager at APUA still has not arrested this problem.<\/p>

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Please, what is the REAL reason why we do not have consistent water? Because with all these changes and investment, the results have still been underwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can an official tell us what the TRUE problem is? Can Antiguans simply not provide this basic need for our own people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frustrated Antiguan<\/p>\n

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