Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. ,” he said, adding that the procurement for improved pumping from the Pepper and the Spur Tree systems has been completed and the procurement for the drilling of two new wells is being finalised.īut with a growing demand for the commodity as the Manchester capital continues to see the buildout of new housing solutions, Barnett believes that the pending and current improvements will optimise service for all. We are building transmission mains and we are going through the approval process of the network. “We intend to add another two million gallons of water through that system up into Mandeville. With growing concerns over poor water distribution by the National Water Commission (NWC) throughout the central region without satisfactory responses to their issues, some customers are fast becoming agitated, with plans to boycott the system if nothing changes soon.īut bogged down with aged infrastructure and with rehabilitative projects for pump houses taking up to a year to complete, NWC President Mark Barnett has said that there is no short-term fix to guarantee the sustained efficient services demanded by customers.īarnett, who was speaking a Gleaner Editors’ Forum this week, said that there is now a budget of $2 billion to improve the water supply to the areas in and around Mandeville, Manchester, through the Pepper water system in St Elizabeth.
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