Princes Town MP Barry Padarath has criticized WASA for its advice to citizens to establish a system of water storage due to a shutdown of the Caroni Water Treatment Plant.
The shutdown, from noon today to noon on Sunday, comes as WASA carries out planned maintenance works at the Plant and along the North and South Transmission System.
It will lead to water disruptions to around 500,000 people in parts of north, central and south Trinidad.
In a public advisory on Monday, the company urged people to use water efficiently and store water during the shutdown.
However, Princes Town MP Barry Padarath says many communities have been without water for weeks and have been unable to prepare.
He is raising concerns about WASA’s ability to effectively provide truck-borne water and whether municipal corporations are financially able, at this time, to have additional water-trucking services.