Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath said the Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to re­cov­er treat­ed wa­ter loss­es at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate through an ex­pand­ed Leak Man­age­ment Pro­gramme by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease, WASA has in­ten­si­fied leak de­tec­tion and re­pair works at Point Lisas as part of its Evo­lu­tion Plan, with a fo­cus on re­duc­ing non-rev­enue wa­ter. The pro­gramme is be­ing car­ried out un­der min­is­te­r­i­al di­rec­tion and in part­ner­ship with the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion.

Joint in­spec­tions by WASA and PLIPDE­CO iden­ti­fied 15 leaks with­in the es­tate. Nine were found to be af­fect­ing in­dus­tri­al fa­cil­i­ties in­volved in petro­chem­i­cal, am­mo­nia, methanol, steel and gas pro­cess­ing. The leaks were re­port­ed as ear­ly as 2020 and were not ad­dressed at that time.