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The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has an­nounced that the Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant is cur­rent­ly op­er­at­ing be­low nor­mal ca­pac­i­ty due to an elec­tri­cal is­sue.

Ac­cord­ing to in­for­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Sev­en Seas Wa­ter (SSW), the own­er and op­er­a­tor of the fa­cil­i­ty, the plant re­sumed op­er­a­tions on Fri­day, May 16, 2025, fol­low­ing planned me­chan­i­cal re­pair works.

How­ev­er, post-restart, an elec­tri­cal is­sue has lim­it­ed pro­duc­tion to 4.6 mil­lion gal­lons per day (mgd), down from the stan­dard 5.5 mgd.