Rain may bring relief from heat by Saturday

and that means rain, hopefully.

According to officials at the Meteorological Office at Piarco, the heat wave would continue until about Saturday evening. It is expected that there would be some rain which would affect south first.

Yesterday, chairman of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Romney Thomas announced that the authority was implementing its 2017 water supply and conservation plan aimed at managing its water resources. He said the reservoirs were maintaining just above half of its containment of water.

Thomas said WASA has been monitoring the impact of the dry season and has been implementing strategies as necessary.

He said over the years there have been drier and more intense dry seasons while the wet seasons have not yielded the normal levels of rainfall. Thomas said so far for April, there has been an average of 76 percent rainfall in all four of WASA’s reservoirs.

However, while he noted the levels at this time were favourable, he said the dry season was having a significant impact on several of WASA’s surface water resources.

This, he said, is resulting in an overall loss in production of about 25 million gallons per day.

To counteract this effect, production has been increased at the Point Lisas desalination plant by about two million gallons daily.

Production was also increased at the Caroni and Hollis water treatment plants and Hillsborough by about 11.3 million gallons per day.

Thomas said the deficit, 27 percent, occurred due to reduced production at Courland, Kings Bay and Hillsborough West water treatment plants which were producing five, 40 and 35 percent of capacity respectively.

While there are water restrictions in Tobago, none has been imposed in Trinidad.