This will be the fourth Christmas in a row residents in St Joseph will have without running water. For the past week, they have endured frequent outages and reported that taps only ran around midnight with low pressure.
On Monday a team of Barbados Water Authority (BWA) workers and officials launched a distribution project to help those affected in that parish.
Residents complained that the water woes negatively impacted their holiday season.
“This problem ain’t now start, it has been going on for over 20 years,” said a woman in Lammings. “It stopped, then it start back happening in 2015 around the drought.”
The elderly woman, who requested anonymity, said Lammings was a densely populated area and everyone could not get water from the community tank. (SB)
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