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Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has is­sued a warn­ing that mis­man­age­ment and cor­rup­tion in wa­ter truck­ing will no longer be tol­er­at­ed, as the Gov­ern­ment rolled out four wa­ter truck­ing tank farms across South Trinidad to bring re­lief to res­i­dents dur­ing the dry sea­son.

The fa­cil­i­ties, es­tab­lished at a cost of just over $2 mil­lion, were launched in the con­stituen­cy of Siparia, which Padarath said WASA da­ta shows is the most un­der­served area in the coun­try. The ini­tia­tive fol­lows protests by res­i­dents in parts of South Trinidad over pro­longed wa­ter short­ages.

“This ad­min­is­tra­tion will not tol­er­ate the kind of mis­man­age­ment that has plagued wa­ter truck­ing in the past,” Padarath said. “That is why these tank farms are be­ing rolled out with strict checks and bal­ances, digi­ti­sa­tion and di­rect min­is­te­r­i­al over­sight.”