PM Browne boasts that water situation has improved since changes at APUA and commends its workers

The people are being promised that, within the next several months,
their water woes will be a thing of the past.

This assurance was given as Prime Minister Gaston Browne boasted
of an improvement in the supply of water since changes have been
made at the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA).

Speaking in Parliament and responding to a question from
Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle, Browne said there has been a
significant improvement in the distribution of pipe-borne water
throughout the country.

He commended the workers of APUA – in particular those working
in the Water Business Unit, whom he had described only weeks ago
as the biggest threat to his administration.

According to Browne, the minister responsible for APUA, Melford
Nicholas, is currently in negotiations with a number of entities –both
local and regional –with the aim of providing Reverse Osmosis (RO)
water within the next four to six months.

This, he says, should satisfy the people’s full requirements for the
commodity.

Meanwhile, giving an update on the loan the Government received
to upgrade products and services at APUA, Browne told Pringle that
$50 million of the just over $100 million borrowed from ACB
Caribbean had been used to upgrade Internet services.

He says the remainder will be spent on other projects, including re-
piping, to improve the distribution of water island-wide.