{"id":223079,"date":"2025-01-23T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=223079"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:01:12","slug":"government-advances-water-supply-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/government-advances-water-supply-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Advances Water Supply Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Efforts to improve Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s water supply are progressing, with the government focusing on increasing daily production to meet growing demand.<\/p>

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Cabinet recently announced several initiatives, including the disassembly of the outdated Tango plant to make way for a new Reverse Osmosis (RO) facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information Minister Lionel Hurst noted, \u201cThe Tango plant takes up space but serves no purpose. Removing it will allow for a new RO plant, increasing production to meet the daily demand of 12 million gallons, as current output stands at 8 million.\u201d<\/p>

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The Ffryes Beach RO Plant, commissioned in 2011, will resume operations next Friday following expansion and upgrades. Pumps will be activated on Tuesday, distributing water northward to St. John\u2019s and southward to Johnson\u2019s Point, Cades Bay, Old Road, and surrounding areas.<\/p>

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Currently, Antigua operates seven RO plants, with the largest at Crabbs producing 3.1 million gallons daily. Plans for a Bethesda plant have been scrapped, and APUA will instead construct a new facility at Crabbs Peninsula to replace the aging plant commissioned in 1988.<\/p>\n

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Efforts to improve Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s water supply are progressing, with the government focusing on increasing daily production to meet growing demand. Cabinet recently announced several initiatives, including the disassembly of the outdated Tango plant to make way for a new Reverse Osmosis (RO) facility. Information Minister Lionel Hurst noted, \u201cThe Tango plant takes up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nGovernment Advances Water Supply Efforts - 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\/government-advances-water-supply-efforts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government Advances Water Supply Efforts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Efforts to improve Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s water supply are progressing, with the government focusing on increasing daily production to meet growing demand. 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