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The De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (CAF) is pro­vid­ing US$700,000 to sup­port the Bar­ba­dos Wa­ter Au­thor­i­ty (BWA) with the re­duc­tion of non-rev­enue wa­ter wastage.

A gov­ern­ment state­ment said that the grant will al­so as­sist in strength­en­ing the BWA’s in­fra­struc­ture for in­creased wa­ter se­cu­ri­ty across Bar­ba­dos.

“We have a pre­vi­ous loan with the BWA for US$10 mil­lion, and we have been do­ing a lot of work in this area. We al­so re­cent­ly host­ed a re­gion­al wa­ter se­cu­ri­ty con­fer­ence here in Bar­ba­dos, where we brought to­geth­er the heads of the agen­cies for wa­ter and san­i­ta­tion from across all CARI­COM coun­tries,” said CAF’s re­gion­al man­ag­er for the Caribbean, Dr. Sta­cy Richards-Kennedy, at the sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny over the last week­end.