The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is re­as­sur­ing the pub­lic that it is proac­tive­ly man­ag­ing wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion as the coun­try tran­si­tions from the 2026 Dry Sea­son in­to the rainy pe­ri­od but urges cit­i­zens to adopt prac­ti­cal wa­ter con­ser­va­tion mea­sures.

Al­though the rainy sea­son was of­fi­cial­ly de­clared in May, WASA ex­plained that a two-month tran­si­tion is typ­i­cal be­fore sur­face wa­ter sources sta­bi­lize. This de­lay has left the North-West Re­gion par­tic­u­lar­ly vul­ner­a­ble, with rain­fall lev­els falling be­low av­er­age.

Sur­face wa­ter fa­cil­i­ties, in­clud­ing the Mar­aval Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant and sev­er­al small­er in­takes, have seen re­duced pro­duc­tion vol­umes. Ground­wa­ter sources al­so are un­der pres­sure, with ap­prox­i­mate­ly 90 wells—among them Mo­ka, Paramin, El So­cor­ro, and San­ta Cruz—ex­pe­ri­enc­ing low­er aquifer recharge due to di­min­ished rain­fall.