Officials of the Water and Sewerage Corporation recently held a town hall meeting on the island of Harbour Island where residents voiced their concerns about water supply issues on the island.
Assistant General Manager in charge of Family Island Affairs, Gregory Stubbs spoke at the meeting. He told attendees, “I do understand your frustrations because we do have water outages in Nassau too and I’m affected by them. So I do understand your frustrations.”
Stubbs explained the issues being experienced with the water plant that services the island. “The power coming to that plant is such that it causes them to lose equipment, pump, electronics. So in order to protect their own equipment and keep the plant running they run on generator. Now its extremely unreliable to operate anything on generator for 100% of the time.”
Resident, Nora Albury addressed the meeting opining, “Harbour Island has outgrown what is there. We are definitely pulling more water, more electricity. So something is wrong with the system. The system needs to be revisited.”
Gregory Stubbs informed, “right now there are issues with the quality of the power we receive and as a result, if we continue to rely on that power being poor quality, we will continue to lose equipment. We have gone into a new contract for supply of water with a contractor here in Bogue. We have done similar projects or we are now doing similar projects in Cat Island, Exuma, South Andros, Mangrove Cay where we’re increasing the power supplies.”
The Assistant General Manager also said a new plant is under construction in Governor’s Harbour and Whatsapp group for the communication of concerns.
