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WASA manages supply as Hollis Reservoir slowly recovers

17 July 2026
This content originally appeared on Trinidad Guardian.
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The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it is con­tin­u­ing to man­age wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion across north east Trinidad as the Hol­lis Reser­voir grad­u­al­ly recharges fol­low­ing im­proved in­flows.

The Au­thor­i­ty said while wa­ter lev­els at the reser­voir have start­ed to re­cov­er, in­flows re­main be­low what is re­quired to re­turn pro­duc­tion to nor­mal lev­els.

WASA said it is mon­i­tor­ing the reser­voir around the clock and ad­just­ing op­er­a­tions dai­ly in an ef­fort to max­imise pro­duc­tion and dis­trib­ute avail­able sup­plies as fair­ly as pos­si­ble among af­fect­ed com­mu­ni­ties.

Some cus­tomers may con­tin­ue to ex­pe­ri­ence re­duced pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply or changes to their reg­u­lar ser­vice sched­ules while the re­cov­ery process con­tin­ues.

Among the af­fect­ed ar­eas are com­mu­ni­ties in Ari­ma south of Broad­way, Ari­ma Old Road, Lyn­ton Gar­dens, Cleaver Heights, De­vel­op­ment, Sher­wood Park, Olton Road, Beck­les Lane, John Lane, Reid Lane Ex­ten­sion, Dar­will Gar­dens, Lil­lian Heights, Foothill, Tim­ber­land Park, Piner­idge, La Re­source North and South, La Floris­sante North and South, Tre­strail and sur­round­ing ar­eas.

WASA said as reser­voir in­flows con­tin­ue to im­prove, it will pro­gres­sive­ly in­crease pro­duc­tion and work to­wards restor­ing nor­mal ser­vice to cus­tomers as quick­ly and safe­ly as pos­si­ble.

The Au­thor­i­ty has urged cus­tomers in af­fect­ed ar­eas to as­sist by lim­it­ing non-es­sen­tial wa­ter use while sup­plies re­main con­strained.

Up­dates on reser­voir con­di­tions and changes to dis­tri­b­u­tion arrange­ments will be pro­vid­ed reg­u­lar­ly, WASA said.

The Hol­lis Reser­voir is one of the ma­jor sources of wa­ter sup­ply for parts of north east Trinidad. Changes in rain­fall pat­terns and re­duced in­flows can af­fect the Au­thor­i­ty’s abil­i­ty to main­tain nor­mal pro­duc­tion lev­els, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing pe­ri­ods of dry weath­er.

Cus­tomers have been ad­vised to mon­i­tor WASA’s up­dates through its of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels for fur­ther in­for­ma­tion on sup­ply arrange­ments.