(Barbados Nation) Starting today, the Barbados Water Authority will be rationing water and diverting it to other areas, especially parishes to the north and east that are most in need.
During a Press conference in his Country Road, St Michael, office today, Minister of Water Resources Wilfred Abrahams said the island’s water levels had passed crisis point.
“We have had the prohibition period; we’ve heard the cries of the people affected in the higher elevations. It is now necessary for us to start the process of rationing water in order for us to get the reservoirs filled that can service the most affected areas,” he said.
Abrahams said the water lines to the Barbados’ reservoirs did not run uninterrupted and were constantly being diverted to certain districts before the water could replenish the reservoirs which then serviced areas in the North and East.
Rationing will be twice from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and again from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. and continue on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
