Councillor calls on NWC to boost water delivery in Siloah
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Councillor for the Siloah Division, Audie Myers is calling on the National Water Commission (NWC) to boost the delivery of trucked water to communities in the division, which have been without piped water for more than a week because of a badly damaged pump.
“The NWC needs to put in more trucks so that residents who are now suffering can get water and have some degree of comfort,” Myers told OBSERVER ONLINE when reached by telephone.
Myers, a People’s National Party (PNP) councillor, said he had been told by the NWC that piped water was likely to resume sometime this week.
Aberdeen, Thornton, Siloah and surrounding communities in northern St Elizabeth are said to be the ones without piped water since the NWC pump stopped working on Monday, February 13, residents reported.
When contacted early Wednesday afternoon, a responder at the Santa Cruz regional office of the NWC was unable to say when piped water would return to the affected communities. “We are trying to truck water to them,” she said.
Myers said special efforts had been made to ensure water was delivered to all affected schools. He thanked Appleton Sugar Estate for assisting with the delivery of water.
Garfield Myers
