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Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Ex­perts and for­mer of­fi­cials are sound­ing the alarm as the fu­ture of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) hangs in the bal­ance, with no clear di­rec­tion from the new ad­min­is­tra­tion fol­low­ing its de­ci­sion to aban­don the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment’s trans­for­ma­tion plan.

Econ­o­mist and for­mer chair­man of the Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment Ad­vi­so­ry Board Dr Ter­rence Far­rell ex­pressed deep con­cern over the lack of a stat­ed al­ter­na­tive.