WASA says discoloured water remains safe for domestic use

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it is tak­ing im­me­di­ate and sus­tained ac­tion to ad­dress re­ports of dis­coloured wa­ter af­fect­ing cus­tomers in some ar­eas.

In a me­dia re­lease on Thurs­day, the Au­thor­i­ty said tech­ni­cal, en­gi­neer­ing, wa­ter qual­i­ty and field teams were mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion, iden­ti­fy­ing con­tribut­ing fac­tors and im­ple­ment­ing mea­sures to re­solve the is­sue.

WASA as­sured cus­tomers that the wa­ter re­mained safe for do­mes­tic use, adding that dai­ly wa­ter qual­i­ty test­ing con­tin­ued at ma­jor fa­cil­i­ties in keep­ing with World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion stan­dards and ap­plic­a­ble wa­ter qual­i­ty re­quire­ments.

The Au­thor­i­ty said the tests formed part of its on­go­ing mon­i­tor­ing and qual­i­ty as­sur­ance mea­sures.

It ac­knowl­edged that changes in the ap­pear­ance of the wa­ter could cause con­cern and in­con­ve­nience to cus­tomers, and said it was tak­ing those con­cerns se­ri­ous­ly.

WASA said restor­ing the wa­ter sup­ply to its nor­mal ap­pear­ance was a pri­or­i­ty and that every ef­fort was be­ing made to re­solve the sit­u­a­tion as quick­ly as pos­si­ble.