The Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties is promis­ing to in­struct the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to re­lease a re­port in the com­ing days that al­leged­ly re­veals ge­o­graph­ic dis­crim­i­na­tion in wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion un­der the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Bar­ry Padarath ref­er­enced a me­dia re­lease from WASA on Tues­day which claimed that in 2024, on­ly 19 per cent of its cus­tomers re­ceived a 24/7 wa­ter sup­ply, while be­tween Jan­u­ary to April this year, it im­proved slight­ly to 27 per cent of cus­tomers.

Padarath said this da­ta di­rect­ly con­flict­ed with for­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les’ as­ser­tion that it was close to 61 per cent with an un­in­ter­rupt­ed sup­ply.