SPRING GARDEN, St James — By the end of this month more parishes will have restrictions placed on water usage as the country wilts under unrelenting heat and dry conditions.

“The prohibition orders are in the east but it is very likely that Clarendon and Manchester will be added to the list, based on what we would have seen for rainfall in terms of cumulative numbers in July,” Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change Matthew Samuda explained Wednesday afternoon during a rural water supply-hosted event in Spring Garden, St James.

“I expect that at the end of August I will get a recommendation that sees the prohibition moving further west,” he added.