A new water resources entity will soon be formed under the Ministry of Public Utilities.
It will be vested with the functions of water resource management that currently reside in the Water and Sewerage Authority’s Water Resources Agency.
Minister of Public Utilities, Marvin Gonzales, made the revelation at a news briefing hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service this week at the Ministry’s head office in Port of Spain.
The new entity, which will be called the Office of Water Resource Management will play a fundamental role in the implementation of the National Integrated Water Resource Management Policy which was recently approved by Cabinet and is now being rolled out.
The OWRM will be responsible for managing all surface water, groundwater and nearshore coastal waters, for regulating water abstraction and use, for establishing minimum stream flows, and for advising on measures to protect and conserve land use for aquifer recharge, watershed protection and environmental needs.
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