Drought in TnT

[twisha]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161607684

Trinidad and Tobago is experiencing a drought.

The Meteorological Service has officially declared a meteorological drought in the country and advises that there is very little prospect for rainfall over the next two to three months.

In a status report on the country’s water supply situation to the House of Representatives yesterday, Minister of Public Utilities Mustapha Abdul-Hamid described the water situation as critical.

The phenomenon of low rainfall levels began in September last year across the region and for the first time since 1946, T&T has gone 31 days with no rainfall. The rainfall deficit for January was 75 per cent and February 95 per cent.

While the wells and desalinated water sources remain largely unaffected, the main reservoirs which supply the majority of the population are now at 45 per cent and are a cause of serious concern, he said. The long-term average of the Arima reservoir at this time of the year is 85 per cent. The reservoir at Navet is 63 per cent; Hollis, 69 per cent; and Hillsborough, 63 per cent. The long-term average of the three is 80 per cent.

’We are looking ahead to a severe and dry three months, with extremely limited water sources,’ he said.

To conserve on water, Hamid said that over the past two months the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) reduced its production at Caroni from a maximum of 75 million gallons per day to 35 million.

In spite of the cut by more than half, WASA has been able to maintain a ’near normal’ service to customers due, in part, he said, to an aggressive leak-repair programme, water restriction measures and ’the positive response of some of the population to WASA’s call for the responsible use of water’.

He said some communities have reported an improvement in their service, but WASA confirmed that in some communities, some continue to waste water by using hoses and sprinklers while watering plants and lawns and some use power-washing equipment on yards and buildings.

Commenting on a number of dry-season projects outlined in an earlier report to Parliament, Abdul-Hamid said WASA has brought on stream ten wells which produce over one million gallons of water per day. Two portable water treatment plants ordered for Pt Fortin and Penal are due to arrive in April and the remaining three in May.

The purchase order for the small package desalination plants is still to be finalised, but the delivery is expected by the end of May.

WASA is also considering transporting water, by barge, from three rivers on the north coast to the south-west of the country, Abdul-Hamid said.

From just three large users, he said WASA, working with larger commercial customers to help them identify unaccounted-for water on their premises, is saving over 500,000 gallons of water per day from leaks that have been repaired.

[hydroep]

Tighten allyuh taps.

[Aaron 2NR]

vision 2020..water for all

[snowman]

Not a good time to own a White 4x4. lol.

[doodle_270]

Not a good time to own a White 4x4. lol.

try having a blue one.....

[evo-STI-k]

Not a time to be washing yuh faking car either- all dem arses who washing car.

[Damien]

doh worry we have a desal plant

[TRDGUY]

it doh matter what colour stop washing the fakin car !!!!

[sleepertercel]

Not a good time to own a White 4x4. lol.

try having a blue one.....

try black

[evo-STI-k]

4x4 made to be covered in MUD anyways, not looking like ah faking spaceship with bling 22" crims!

[sleepertercel]

yuh mean it not supposed to look like de starship from enterprise?

[Zorak]

think cloud seeding could help?

[d spike]

Here's a story:
The Yanks had built multiple small dams in the hills of Chaguaramas and piped them off to underground cisterns, using this water to supply their base and support communities.
Whenever in the past one of these lines were rediscovered, WASA quietly piped it into their grid. They never bothered to trace these lines, they just accepted these as a ground-water source.
During the dry season, the pressure in the WASA mains would overcome the gravity feed pressure in the hidden cisterns, and water would flow back into the cisterns, then up into the dams (back into the ravines, into the ground... talk about water recycling).
WASA figures that they lose two million gallons a day to these underground systems... and now their quiet policy is to disconnect such lines when they find them - for they have no idea where such connection are, as they have no record of connecting them in the first place...

[Chimera]

Not a good time to own a White 4x4. lol.

try having a blue one.....

try black

Try having both

[d spike]

Not a good time to own a White 4x4. lol.

try having a blue one.....

try black

Try having both

Save water. Drive a dirty car.

[TK!]

Here's a story:
The Yanks had built multiple small dams in the hills of Chaguaramas and piped them off to underground cisterns, using this water to supply their base and support communities.
Whenever in the past one of these lines were rediscovered, WASA quietly piped it into their grid. They never bothered to trace these lines, they just accepted these as a ground-water source.
During the dry season, the pressure in the WASA mains would overcome the gravity feed pressure in the hidden cisterns, and water would flow back into the cisterns, then up into the dams (back into the ravines, into the ground... talk about water recycling).
WASA figures that they lose two million gallons a day to these underground systems... and now their quiet policy is to disconnect such lines when they find them - for they have no idea where such connection are, as they have no record of connecting them in the first place...

that sound like a load of crock.

if they took that water, it would be on the intake side of the system. ie-before treatment.

the output section of the system (ie - clean water) would not feed back into the intake.

[d spike]

Here's a story:
The Yanks had built multiple small dams in the hills of Chaguaramas and piped them off to underground cisterns, using this water to supply their base and support communities.
Whenever in the past one of these lines were rediscovered, WASA quietly piped it into their grid. They never bothered to trace these lines, they just accepted these as a ground-water source.
During the dry season, the pressure in the WASA mains would overcome the gravity feed pressure in the hidden cisterns, and water would flow back into the cisterns, then up into the dams (back into the ravines, into the ground... talk about water recycling).
WASA figures that they lose two million gallons a day to these underground systems... and now their quiet policy is to disconnect such lines when they find them - for they have no idea where such connection are, as they have no record of connecting them in the first place...

that sound like a load of crock.

if they took that water, it would be on the intake side of the system. ie-before treatment.

the output section of the system (ie - clean water) would not feed back into the intake.

In a perfect world, I would agree with you.


What makes you think that they chlorinate all their water?
There's a lot that goes on in WASA (regarding water and sewage treatment) that they would prefer the public not know about. How is chlorine added to most of our water supply? Do you know?

[d spike]

4x4 made to be covered in MUD anyways, not looking like ah faking spaceship with bling 22" crims!

Damn right.

[d spike]

that sound like a load of crock.

if they took that water, it would be on the intake side of the system. ie-before treatment.

the output section of the system (ie - clean water) would not feed back into the intake.

In a perfect world, I would agree with you.


What makes you think that they chlorinate all their water?
There's a lot that goes on in WASA (regarding water and sewage treatment) that they would prefer the public not know about. How is chlorine added to most of our water supply? Do you know?

TK, how is water supplied to Dibe?
(You know how many plants we have that pump treated sewage out to sea? Do you know how many of those aren't working (treating, that is) but are still pumping it out anyway?)

[DFC]

in india (agra to be specific) i saw a dilapidated building which housed a pump that pulled water from the nasty yamuna river and the water dribbled down a concrete step kinda thing. I asked..arrey bhai..kya vhat is that? (and did the hand curl and head shake) ...He said that's the water filtration plant...
lol.

they just throw the water down some kinda step thing...once the dead dogs and babies and buffalo crap comes out..then its clean....hahahah..
well i use that water for ah two weeks eh...it brown n does taste salty..

be thankful at least we water here clear....well most of the times...

oh and what drought? a richman having wedding close to my house..and is water for soo....3 days water non stop for the whole area!!

[HaRdCoRe_YoUtH]

pressure till rainy season!!

[d spike]

pressure till rainy season!!

Yuh better hope dat rainy season will have rain in it...

[White CZ4A]

guess who doing the desal plant..

H.Karamath....

after all that went down with the Brian Lara Stadium, this company continues to get tons of work.

[SNIPER 3000]

White CZ4A,
So.........what?

[evo-STI-k]

guess who doing the desal plant..

H.Karamath....

after all that went down with the Brian Lara Stadium, this company continues to get tons of work.

AND the the fact that a member of the family KILLED 2 innocent people on the roadways !



ah jess saying!

[White CZ4A]

White CZ4A,
So.........what?

yeah so?

[Chimera]

guess who doing the desal plant..

H.Karamath....

after all that went down with the Brian Lara Stadium, this company continues to get tons of work.

How are companies awarded these projects? By submitting bids?

[TriniVdub]

^^ NO.....by knowing someone.

[tr1ad]

that and bribe

[Chimera]

but isn't there an a semblance of an official bidding process?

I mean obviously, whoever know who will get the project but...is there officially a bidding process?