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The Cabinet invited the General Manager of APUA and four other APUA managers to address the issue of water, electricity, a sub-sea cable and the dredging of the channel in the Maiden Island area.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>

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The Cabinet learned that four new reservoirs (tanks) have been added to the eight that already exist, which together are capable of holding more than 5 million gallons of\u00a0stored\u00a0potable water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potworks Dam, which is capable of holding more than 1 billion gallons of water, is currently providing no water at all compelling the APUA to desalinate more than 8 million gallons daily using its reverse osmosis plants. Underground aquifers in the Bendals area, the Cabinet was told, are providing more than 250 gallons of potable water daily. <\/p>

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The aim is to make APUA less reliant on rainfall as global climate change proceeds to make Antigua and Barbuda a drier place.<\/p>

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iThe Manager responsible for Telephones and I.T.\u00a0<\/strong>services again spoke about the sub-sea cable which is contemplated for APUA broadband services. The utility company currently purchases its broadband capacity from another carrier whose user rates can fluctuate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gaston Browne administration has been giving thought to its own sub-sea cable which it believes will reduce cost and make APUA more competitive.<\/p>

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APUA was assigned the responsibility of dredging a deeper channel<\/strong>\u00a0in the Maiden Island area to allow for vessels with a deeper draught to transit to the cement silos at Crabbes and for tanks of LNG to be offloaded near the LNG electricity plant also at Crabbes Peninsula. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dates of completion\u00a0of the dredging\u00a0have been pushed back more than once and a completion date in January 2025 is now being offered. The Cabinet has compelled APUA and the dredging company to get together in order to bring forward the date of completion of the channel. The officials will meet tomorrow, Thursday.<\/p>

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The Cabinet invited the General Manager of APUA and four other APUA managers to address the issue of water, electricity, a sub-sea cable and the dredging of the channel in the Maiden Island area.\u00a0 The Cabinet learned that four new reservoirs (tanks) have been added to the eight that already exist, which together are capable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nAPUA Officials attend Cabinet to address a variety of concerns - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APUA Officials attend Cabinet to address a variety of concerns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Cabinet invited the General Manager of APUA and four other APUA managers to address the issue of water, electricity, a sub-sea cable and the dredging of the channel in the Maiden Island area.\u00a0 The Cabinet learned that four new reservoirs (tanks) have been added to the eight that already exist, which together are capable […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-11-07T12:33:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-11-07T12:33:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/APUA-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"433\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"APUA Officials attend Cabinet to address a variety of concerns\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-11-07T12:33:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-11-07T12:33:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/\"},\"wordCount\":316,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:433\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/APUA-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/apua-officials-attend-cabinet-to-address-a-variety-of-concerns\/\",\"name\":\"APUA Officials attend Cabinet to address a variety of concerns - 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