THE National Water Commission says that while every effort is being made to sustain water supplies to its customers amidst the prolonged dry period, its efforts are being thwarted by criminal elements who over the weekend removed electrical cables from the Forest Hills Water Supply System in St Andrew and the recently re-commissioned Government Park Well in St Catherine.

The Forest Hills System, normally used to augment the water supply to sections of the Constant Spring service areas since the worsening of the drought, was vandalised on Saturday with the removal of cables from the control box. Similar discoveries were made yesterday evening at the Government Park # 1 Well when a mobile operator found that the cables were removed from the control box at the well.

The well was recently brought back into operation to boost water supply to sections of Portmore by providing an additional 1.5 million gallons per day.

Although interim measures have been put in place to continue operations at these facilities, the company has once again appealed for people to desist from these acts of vandalism, noting that its operations become severely impacted and there is a significant reduction in the reliability of service to its customers.