WASA blames reduced production for Olton Road water shortages

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has at­trib­uted wa­ter sup­ply chal­lenges af­fect­ing res­i­dents of Olton Road, Ari­ma, to re­duced pro­duc­tion ca­pac­i­ty at the Hol­lis Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant (WTP) and lim­i­ta­tions with­in the ex­ist­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion in­fra­struc­ture.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, in re­sponse to res­i­dents’ com­plaints about wors­en­ing wa­ter short­ages, WASA said the east­ern sec­tion of Olton Trace re­mained par­tic­u­lar­ly vul­ner­a­ble to re­duced pres­sure and in­ad­e­quate wa­ter de­liv­ery be­cause of the con­di­tion, size and con­fig­u­ra­tion of its ex­ist­ing pipelines.

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The au­thor­i­ty said the west­ern sec­tion gen­er­al­ly ben­e­fit­ed from a more favourable dis­tri­b­u­tion arrange­ment.