ON the heels of the recent theft of copper from pipe lines in Upper Bournes Road, St James, Minister of Public Utilities Marvin Gonzales is calling for regulation of the scrap iron industry.
The incident in St James left water wasting as the connections were all left broken.
Gonzales said, “The reason why people do those things is there is a market for it and that market is quite profitable.”
He added he was very disappointed , but noted that this was not the first time that the Water and Sewage Authority (WASA) was robbed by copper thieves. He said the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) also has its own challenges with copper theft.
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