NWC customers in St Ann, St Mary and Portland urged to conserve, store water amid ongoing drought

The National Water Commission (NWC) is encouraging its customers in St Ann, St Mary and Portland to continue to conserve and store water as the ongoing drought continues to impact some of its water supply systems in those parishes.

The NWC is reporting that some of its facilities are still experiencing declining inflows at surface water sources, resulting in reduced production capacity.

Consequently, some systems are producing water at 10 to 40 per cent of normal capacity.

In St Ann, the impacted facilities are Avisfield, New Ground, Blackstonedge, Higgin Town, and Seville.

Over in St Mary, Rock Spring, Bunny Gate, Iterboreale, Hunts Town, Martha Hall, and Palmetto Grove are being affected.

And Turtle Crawl, Packi River No.1, Kensington, Long Bay, Haining, Hope Bay, and Windsor Forest in Portland are being impacted.

To mitigate the impact of the drought, the NWC has implemented several regulated water supply and trucking schedules to service the affected areas.

The commission says it will continue to monitor the situation, and appealed to customers to be patient.

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