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Wa­ter trucks have been en­ter­ing the Pi­paro area to sup­ply truck-borne wa­ter to res­i­dents liv­ing near the new­ly ac­tive mud vol­cano, as State agen­cies con­tin­ue to re­spond to the lat­est episode of vol­canic ac­tiv­i­ty that dis­rupt­ed the com­mu­ni­ty on Christ­mas Eve.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia, res­i­dent Nabi­hah Solomon said pipe-borne wa­ter was cut off af­ter sev­er­al WASA lines were dam­aged when the vol­cano be­gan emit­ting mud around 9 am on Wednes­day.

“All the WASA lines burst, and we had no wa­ter, but we are thank­ful that they sent wa­ter for us in trucks,” Solomon said.