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Frus­trat­ed Table­land res­i­dents say they will give the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) two weeks to im­prove their wa­ter sup­ply, af­ter Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Clyde El­der apol­o­gised for the long­stand­ing short­age dur­ing a vis­it to the com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day.

El­der, Moru­ga/Table­land MP Michelle Ben­jamin and a WASA team vis­it­ed Robert Vil­lage fol­low­ing Thurs­day’s protest by res­i­dents over the lack of a re­li­able wa­ter sup­ply. The of­fi­cials met with res­i­dents and com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist Har­ri­lal Ramb­ha­jan at his home, where dis­cus­sions fo­cused on the caus­es of the short­age and the steps be­ing planned to bring re­lief.

El­der said Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath, who is cur­rent­ly in the Unit­ed States, asked him to ac­com­pa­ny Ben­jamin to the area to ad­dress crit­i­cal and long­stand­ing wa­ter is­sues af­fect­ing res­i­dents. Ac­knowl­edg­ing the frus­tra­tion faced by cit­i­zens, El­der apol­o­gised to res­i­dents in Table­land and oth­er com­mu­ni­ties ex­pe­ri­enc­ing sim­i­lar prob­lems.