The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has moved to ad­dress on­go­ing wa­ter sup­ply dis­rup­tions in Cas­tara, To­ba­go, fol­low­ing a protest by res­i­dents yes­ter­day morn­ing over the pro­longed sit­u­a­tion.

The Au­thor­i­ty said it has de­ployed two wa­ter trucks to serve af­fect­ed com­mu­ni­ties in North­side, To­ba­go, while ur­gent leak re­pair works con­tin­ue in Cas­tara and Par­latu­vi­er, with com­ple­tion ex­pect­ed by last night.

Based on op­er­a­tional re­ports, cus­tomers in high-el­e­va­tion ar­eas—par­tic­u­lar­ly the Cas­tara Hous­ing Scheme—have been with­out a con­sis­tent pipe-borne sup­ply for over a week due to mul­ti­ple leaks along the trans­mis­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work be­tween the Bloody Bay Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant and the Cas­tara com­mu­ni­ty.