WASA Thread ...

[alfa]

Meanwhile I getting a literal trickle in my pipe, taking 1/2 hour to fill a gallon paint bucket. I probably send a dozen reports and complaints and emails and WASA eh do sheit to fix it. But I get the wasa bill yesterday though! Yes I welcome metering but how the thief, waste and corruption will pass?

Report to RIC, I did that on a few occasions and they actually call you and follow up on your complaint

[Habit7]

I hover around 17-20 cubic m for my cycle...and I does do all kinda thing but I'm sure there is no wastage

The average water use for a person is 60 gpd in the US and 82gpd in TT.
17m3 is around 4,500 gallons and that for 3 months.

How much people live in your household bruv?

82 gallons per day = 0.310404 m3 per day

17m3 = 54.8 days

He is using below the average TT user. But I am not understanding the rate though because I believe it is $2.09 per m3. I don't understand how he is paying $1300 a cycle with 17m3 use.

You not understanding the bill, that $1300 is a credit amount. I put $ on my bill every month. The rate is $1.87 per cubic m.

Yea you didn't mention that you have a credit. But it all makes sense now.

[cornfused]

From a bit a small research not other Caribbean country has used this method to manage water resources. It had been used in England and Australia

[Habit7]

From a bit a small research not other Caribbean country has used this method to manage water resources. It had been used in England and Australia

You are right…

Except for Barbados https://barbados.loopnews.com/content/w ... riculture#
Jamaica https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lea ... face-court
Grenada https://gbn.gd/dry-season-forces-water-restrictions/
And nearly every other Caribbean nation and territory.

[nervewrecker]

Without clicking your links, don't some of these smaller islands have underground cisterns that they collect and store rainwater in?

[Habit7]

Without clicking your links, don't some of these smaller islands have underground cisterns that they collect and store rainwater in?

Yes. Not everybody there is connected to the network but they have to collect rainwater and store it in underground tanks. But they still have to obey the ban on hoses, sprinklers, etc

[bluefete]

[bluefete]

I wonder if this is accidental.

[pugboy]

from the pic on wasa fb looks like a shoddy joint shifted with soil movement
was deep under the left side of the roundabout

I wonder if this is accidental.

[maj. tom]

Pipe leaks are an insidious bane to soil engineering. Could have been worse like a sinkhole on the lane.
The trigger could have being the vibration of a large truck passing or some minor earthquake that can cause liquefaction and the land under the pipe leak will just slip and slide like flowing mud.


Well we can thank wasa for doing their national duty of mashing up the road and never fixing it back. Was about time anyway for that piece of Curepe highway to dig up to remind the citizens where we living. Was too smooth for too long.

[pugboy]

nice lil clamp flange

[Dave]

With Wasa's rep, noon Friday for completion can only be swallowed so much.
Yes affected again.....

[pugboy]

yuh ain’t have enuf tanks?
everybody needs min 1000gal per 2-3 persons

With Wasa's rep, noon Friday for completion can only be swallowed so much.
Yes affected again.....

[maj. tom]

Yuh hadda use 2 buckets to wash wares boy. One with soapy to soak and scrub, and one with clean to rinse each plate with a cup of water. That's how they do it with water meter houses that have rationing.

2 or 3 compartment kitchen sinks make this easier of course. A modern dishwasher supposed to save a lot of water.

[bluefete]

[Dizzy28]

I have been affected by that Curepe thing. All day Wed, Thu and well this morning when I left home had no water. But to be fair at nights its pressure to buss head so my tank gets to fully refill.

[Dave]

yuh ain’t have enuf tanks?
everybody needs min 1000gal per 2-3 persons

With Wasa's rep, noon Friday for completion can only be swallowed so much.
Yes affected again.....

Broski...while I do have some storage and acknowledge that I need to increase my capacity...I am limited by how much I can actually add to the present system.

It has returned ever so little.

[pugboy]

see wasa put out ad saying to put a soft drink bottle in toilet tank to reduce tank volume to save when flushing

[maj. tom]

What the Government could do is pass some kind of tax break or wasa bill compensation for private citizen to encourage them to purchase better water saving systems. Like new toilets are so much more efficient than ones from the 1980s in terms of using less water and flushing cleanly. Changing to new shower heads, roof guttering systems to recycle rain water in a separate tank for flushing and washing the car.


oh no sorry I now wake up from dreamland and I in Trinidad again.

[wing]

see wasa put out ad saying to put a soft drink bottle in toilet tank to reduce tank volume to save when flushing

In the same way Petrotrin was destroyed due to losing money, wasa should be dismantled completely, their incompetence is unacceptable.

[Habit7]

What the Government could do is pass some kind of tax break or wasa bill compensation for private citizen to encourage them to purchase better water saving systems. Like new toilets are so much more efficient than ones from the 1980s in terms of using less water and flushing cleanly. Changing to new shower heads, roof guttering systems to recycle rain water in a separate tank for flushing and washing the car.


oh no sorry I now wake up from dreamland and I in Trinidad again.

Or they could cut the water subsidy that is causing Trinidadians to be one of the highest consumers of water in the region. Give everyone meters and with a tariff that truly reflects the price of water they will implement water saving infrastructure to reduce their expenditure. Kinda like how other countries in the world do it without tax breaks.

But nah, we are living in subsidy dreamland of T&T where we demand subsidies to remain but don’t understand why what we subsidise remains underfunded, antiquated and inefficient.

[pugboy]

giving everybody meters ain’t happening logistically or cost wise from the amount of man power required.

they should give persons the option to pay to have meter installed and the meter cost subtracted from their bill over time

many persons will take this options and plenty definitely won’t

[maj. tom]

LMAO

[Habit7]

giving everybody meters ain’t happening logistically or cost wise from the amount of man power required.

they should give persons the option to pay to have meter installed and the meter cost subtracted from their bill over time

many persons will take this options and plenty definitely won’t

Last year WASA received $1.3B in subsidies last year https://trinidadexpress.com/business/lo ... 0.amp.html . If there are about 300k households in TT that means WASA can easily spend $4000 on a meter for every house, amortise the cost and solve the need for yearly subsidies.

[Dizzy28]

yuh ain’t have enuf tanks?
everybody needs min 1000gal per 2-3 persons

With Wasa's rep, noon Friday for completion can only be swallowed so much.
Yes affected again.....

Me with my one 450Gallon tank and a household of 4.

[maj. tom]

WASA: Tunapuna, St Augustine water supply back to normal by March 17

PARTS of north Trinidad – Macoya, Pasea, Curepe, Valsayn South, St Augustine and Real Spring – will continue to experience a disrupted water supply caused by a burst transmission pipeline on the westbound lane of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, near the Curepe Interchange.

But the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) issued a statement on March 15, saying major repairs were completed ahead of time at 4 am on March 15, restoring the water supply via the Caroni North transmission system.

Customers in parts of the Tunapuna/St Augustine area will continue to be affected, it said, "as work at the site is ongoing on a secondary pipeline that supplies these areas.”

https://newsday.co.tt/2024/03/15/wasa-tunapuna-st-augustine-water-supply-back-to-normal-by-march-17/

[redmanjp]

yuh ain’t have enuf tanks?
everybody needs min 1000gal per 2-3 persons

With Wasa's rep, noon Friday for completion can only be swallowed so much.
Yes affected again.....

Me with my one 450Gallon tank and a household of 4.

is also how often u get water- what is your schedule?

[Dizzy28]

yuh ain’t have enuf tanks?
everybody needs min 1000gal per 2-3 persons

With Wasa's rep, noon Friday for completion can only be swallowed so much.
Yes affected again.....

Me with my one 450Gallon tank and a household of 4.

is also how often u get water- what is your schedule?

Prior to 2023 we got water everyday. In 2023 we started getting water every Tues, Thu and Sun for around half the year. The remainder of the time we got water everyday but at pressures insufficient to do anything.

So far in 2024 they said we would be on the same Tue, Thu and Sun however with the exception of last week [the leak/works in Curepe] we have water every day but once again on the days we not supposed to have water (Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat) the pressure is low but water does come through.

[Rovin]

https://www.facebook.com/625922649/vide ... 6803191339

[pugboy]

must overflow if tanks of unequal height
duuuuhhhhh
yes yuh could try and put check valves but often doesn’t work