Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley yesterday promised that getting water to the people in rural areas is now a top priority, revealing that a special capital works project on a feeder to the Bowmanston Pumping Station in St John will be fast-tracked.
“I get it, I live ’bout here; I hear the grumblings with the water and the water is going to come in spite of the drought. Every day without fail, I speak to the Minister [of Water Resources Wilfred Abrahams] to find out where we are with the pipes,” Mottley told reporters yesterday.
Her promise came a few days after Abrahams and acting general manager of the Barbados Water Authority, Dr John Mwansa, went 269 feet down into the reservoir at Bowmanston, only to find a mere three feet of water within one of the most important aquifers.
In an effort to address the low water levels at Bowmanston, the BWA began the $14.8 million project, which would see the movement of water from Vineyard, St Philip, to the Golden Ridge/Bowmanston system. (TG)
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