WSD Director calls for more efforts to identify and revive water sources
Director of the Water & Sewerage Department, Perline Scatliffe-Leonard has said efforts must be made to identify and, in some cases, revive water sources such as wells, catchments and ponds to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Delivering remarks for World Water Day 2022 observed on March 22, Scatliffe-Leonard said: “Potable water service can be grossly impacted during hurricanes, power outages, rising sea levels, and other disasters to which we are exposed, and this is why, we must find ways to identify, and in some cases revive our water sources.”
She added that water is life and measures must be taken to ensure that this resource is always available.
“In addition to other initiatives, the department has taken onboard Sustainable Development Goals 6 (SD-6) which is one of the many goals under the United Nations for developing countries, that speaks strictly to water and sanitation. The department continues in its operations and maintenance efforts toward this goal,” the director stated.
The theme for World Water Day 2022 is “Groundwater: making the invisible visible” as groundwater accounts for 99 per cent of all liquid freshwater on earth and has the potential to provide environmental benefits and opportunities.
World Water Day is observed annually and focuses on the importance of freshwater. It also reinforces efforts to raise awareness to the billions of people living without access to safe water.
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hunm! you all need to stop charging bills to the tennants other people bills stop all your wickedness . people dont want to pay bills because of the abuse of charges of water to land lords and tennants no body will pay!!!! stop!!!
Who choose that pic?
100% Agree.
how can I pay for water when its always off. for 2 years now I catching water to bathed with cause the water never on. and I am not the only person having this problem.
so first fix the problem about billing persons the wrong bill and making sure it have running water all the time.
plus when you call for your bill it never ready and call again two or three months add from out of no where.
make it worst on the holiday that just pass water went compete off from the Friday to the Monday the water came back the Tuesday night just time for me to full back up so me and my kids and clean around the house and take a bathed.
then stand in line to make a payment. Come on guys there must be 10 ways to make this more efficient and consumer friendly
before writing read carefully.
if you call and ask for the bill its never ready.. I show up to get it still is not print out or my meter has not been read as yet….
then when i show up again. gonna tell me oh this month was add on cause the guys didn’t read the meter that month.
so just tell me (know it all) which other line should i go stand up in….
She need to run in the 7th to take out that waste ah time minister
Run for what? LOL
HaHa that’s sweet I think u can see the “DEMONS” within Mrs,PSL
The Meters are not calibrated . They need to bring someone in to calibrate those meters so one can be fairly and accurately charged.
Stop spreading fibs. They are calibrated.
Indeed, water is life and water/water resources is critical for domestic needs and for growth and development. The VI is a water-challenged community with an increasing population. It has no rivers, dams, ponds, streams, etc to uptake water from. Though wells, catchments, springs, etc, would improve water supply, if only marginally, the primary water source is desalination. A water utilities (water, wastewater (sewage), storm water) master plan is needed. A radical approach though it may sound repulsive is exploring toilet to tap programme. Increasingly, some locales are exploring and using the toilet to tap water source.
@E. Leonard, lawd ah mercy! Toilet to tap water! You right it is repulsive. Looks like you want to kill ah we. Lol. However, in using the Google machine, you suggesting is not that far fetched. What is the source(s) for bottle water. Nevertheless, the suggestion is a heavy and advanced lift though. The WSD can’t eben bill properly, fix leaks in timely manner, etc. Climate change is real and we must plan for but must take take care of the routine issues. You suggest a master plan but the BVI is a poor planner, doing things from the seat of their pants. It is poor at planning and poor at reacting. What a royal mess.
you fooled a lot of people , but your true self has been revealed ,there are a lot of people including some car wash thiefing water and some workers know , but we are charged again for the same bills again and again so ( to us water users PLEASE KEEP YOUR BILLS WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO TO PAY YOUR BILL , WSD needs a real engineer
Fixing the numerous leaks in the system within 24 hours of notification would save lots of lost fresh water.
@Leaks, the metric for responding to major leaks and other emergencies should be within two hours. Routine work orders within 72 hours. Responding and fixing leaks should be a top priority.
This is all Frazer’s fault for being so gr**dy & self centered. Ocean conversation & the other water plants could have still been up and running to help balance the water demands not to mention allow down time for maintenance when need be. When you have motives that are not in the best interest of the people you are suppose to represent.
Exactly.
Still waiting on water lines to be placed in Rogues Bay.
it might be a better idea to beg those 3 ? HOly men from cane garden bay to pray for you ?
Water leak at lock hill
when you turn unlock Hill every 2 weeks approximately 600 gal a minute is leaking out. Contact me for more information I’ll give you the direction
Plzzz stop that leak too much water is waisting. 5432526