The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has be­gun a se­ries of clean-up and de­silt­ing ex­er­cis­es across the coun­try to mit­i­gate flood­ing ahead of the rainy sea­son, ac­cord­ing to Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

Padarath spoke on Wednes­day with Guardian Me­dia fol­low­ing the launch of an ex­er­cise in Dow Vil­lage, Cal­i­for­nia, Cen­tral Trinidad. The ini­tia­tive forms part of a broad­er, co­or­di­nat­ed ef­fort in­volv­ing WASA, re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions and the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture.

“This is a con­tin­u­a­tion from sev­er­al con­stituen­cies where we first start­ed a few weeks ago in Barataria/San Juan,” Padarath said. “WASA is part­ner­ing through the equip­ment and per­son­nel that they have, work­ing along­side re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions and con­stituen­cies to as­sist in de­silt­ing and clean-up ef­forts ahead of the rainy sea­son.”