The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has con­demned what it de­scribed as an act of crim­i­nal sab­o­tage fol­low­ing the theft of a pow­er ca­ble at the St. Joseph Boost­er Sta­tion in Ma­yaro.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued on Wednes­day, WASA said the in­ci­dent dis­rupt­ed op­er­a­tions at the fa­cil­i­ty and threat­ened the de­liv­ery of pipe-borne wa­ter to sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties.

Ac­cord­ing to the Au­thor­i­ty, per­son­nel con­duct­ing checks at the boost­er sta­tion dis­cov­ered at about 12.30 a.m. on Tues­day that the pow­er ca­ble run­ning from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion pow­er sup­ply to the me­ter at the sta­tion had been re­moved.