Saint Lucia tries to avert water crisis
Saint Lucia’s main water storage facility, the John Compton Dam is currently holding half of its designed capacity, which water company WASCO says is a grave situation that requires a massive and expensive rehabilitation project.
Officials say the island’s main source of water, the John Compton Dam, has been severely compromised, after years of landslides from the above catchments resulted in the accumulation of silt and debris in the dam, which now operates at half its built capacity.
“You will recall that last year and even this year we are still continuing in a very severe drought. That has not abated. We started implementing measures in March of last year, then we had a water-related emergency, which remains in effect because we have not had rainfall for the year,” says WASCO’s Managing Director Vincent Hippolyte.
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