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CABINET NOTES: <\/em><\/strong>The Cabinet invited a consultancy firm to address it; the firm\u2019s responsibility is to assess APUA\u2019s performance and make recommendations for improvements.\u00a0<\/p>

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The Cabinet is especially interested in ensuring that APUA provides sufficient potable water to households, hotels, businesses and institutions on a regular basis; it was accepted that APUA creates seventy-five percent (75%) of the potable water required to fulfill nationwide demand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although several reverse osmosis plants are to be added to bring capacity in line with consumption, the Cabinet desires an outcome that would ensure each household can receive water no fewer than five days per week, and at times that allow for water use. <\/p>

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The consultant team left satisfied that it knew precisely what the Cabinet desired of it.<\/p>

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