Morvant residents demand answers after ‘weeks with no water’

Res­i­dents of parts of Mor­vant are plead­ing for ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion from the au­thor­i­ties, with some house­holds re­port­ing that they have gone up to six weeks with­out a reg­u­lar pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply.

Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed parts of Cale­do­nia and Up­per Mal­ick yes­ter­day with the coun­cil­lor for the area and San Juan/Laven­tille vice-chair­man, Kwe­si An­toine, who said res­i­dents have re­sort­ed to pur­chas­ing wa­ter from peo­ple who il­le­gal­ly col­lect it from Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) mains.

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Res­i­dent Kwe­si Dy­er said ar­eas served by the Cipri­ani Av­enue sys­tem have been se­vere­ly af­fect­ed, with wa­ter ei­ther not reach­ing homes or ar­riv­ing with in­suf­fi­cient pres­sure to reach high­er el­e­va­tions.