WASA activates plans for 2026 Dry Season

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has be­gun im­ple­ment­ing mea­sures to man­age the coun­try’s wa­ter sup­ply, fol­low­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of the start of the 2026 Dry Sea­son by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025.

WASA said it is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing wa­ter re­sources and tak­ing steps to main­tain a sus­tain­able sup­ply through­out the dry pe­ri­od, adding that co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the Au­thor­i­ty and the pub­lic is crit­i­cal as con­di­tions be­come dri­er.

The Au­thor­i­ty re­port­ed that as of Thurs­day 8 Jan­u­ary 2025, the coun­try’s four main im­pound­ed reser­voirs were above their re­spec­tive long-term av­er­ages, plac­ing WASA in a favourable po­si­tion as the Dry Sea­son be­gins.

WASA re­ports that at the Are­na Reser­voir, lev­els stood at 98.3 per cent com­pared with 79.2 per cent on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025, and a long-term av­er­age of 95.2 per cent.

The Navet Reser­voir record­ed a lev­el of 96.0 per cent on Thurs­day, WASA re­port­ed, com­pared with 92.9 per cent on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025, and a long-term av­er­age of 97.2 per cent.

Hills­bor­ough Reser­voir was at 99.5 per cent, WASA said, com­pared with 100 per cent on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025, and a long-term av­er­age of 97.4 per cent.

At the Hol­lis Reser­voir, lev­els were mea­sured at 93.8 per cent, com­pared with 98.9 per cent on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025, and a long-term av­er­age of 94.6 per cent.

WASA said it has ac­ti­vat­ed its Dry Sea­son Wa­ter Man­age­ment Plan, which fo­cus­es on main­tain­ing a sus­tain­able and eq­ui­table wa­ter sup­ply for com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try. Key el­e­ments of the plan in­clude the pru­dent mon­i­tor­ing and man­age­ment of wa­ter re­sources to en­sure strate­gic and eq­ui­table dis­tri­b­u­tion; on­go­ing in­fra­struc­ture main­te­nance and up­grades aimed at re­duc­ing leaks and im­prov­ing ef­fi­cien­cy; and a pub­lic aware­ness cam­paign to keep stake­hold­ers in­formed.

Un­der the theme, “Join the Evo­lu­tion. Make Every Drop Count”, the Au­thor­i­ty said it will use all me­dia plat­forms to share in­for­ma­tion on sup­ply chal­lenges, mit­i­ga­tion mea­sures, con­ser­va­tion tech­niques, and reser­voir up­dates.

WASA al­so en­cour­aged cit­i­zens to take proac­tive steps to con­serve wa­ter, stress­ing that col­lec­tive ef­fort is es­sen­tial to en­sur­ing a sus­tain­able wa­ter sup­ply dur­ing the Dry Sea­son.