We want water
published: Wednesday | August 25, 2004

THE EDITOR, Sir:

THE WATER supply in Cassava River, Glengoffe, must be one of the worst in the entire Jamaica. For the last 15 years we have had to suffer severe water rations, sometimes receiving water only once per week, which is our current situation.

You find yourself accumulating one plastic tank after another just so you can hope to full up when water is available for the two or three fleeting hours on that particular day. Imagine yourself in 21st century Jamaica keeping your fingers crossed so that on that particular day of the week, rain falls ­ but not too heavily ­ or that there is no power outage or that the pump is in working order or that there is no broken main on the road or that some other occurrence, whether man-made or otherwise, does not happen as it may deny you of water for the entire week.

Why can't the National Water Commission spend some money to upgrade its Soue River catchment plant to allow residents of Glengoffe and surrounding areas, and Cassava River in particular, to enjoy a semblance of civilised living conditions? Paying for water and getting it once or less per week is unacceptable and dishonest. We are asking anyone, anyone with the ability to do something, to do it now.

I am, etc.,

RICKNEL A. DUNBAR

slicknrick@yahoo.com

Cassava River

Glengoffe P.O.

St. Catherine