Sunday, June 7, 2026

‘Fed up’ paying for dry taps

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RESIDENTS OF MOUNT BREVITOR, St Peter, are fed up getting water bills for dry taps.

One day after those people living in a number of St Joseph districts expressed similar sentiments to the DAILY NATION, the St Peter folk were up in arms over their continuing water woes yesterday.

“We’ve been having outages for the past four years now but we still getting a big bill every month which has to be paid,” said a frustrated Wayne Walters. “Today, we have no water at all and it has been so for the past two days, so we here dipping water from cans we had water stored in. This morning I had to go to Speightstown to refill the cans.”

He said that since people have moved into the Phase 2 development down the hill, water had been hard to come by for those uphill. (CA)

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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