The National Water Commission (NWC) has said inflows to the Hermitage Dam in St. Andrew now average less than half the daily requirement. NWC Corporate Public Relations Manager Charles Buchanan said supply from one of the three sources which feeds the Hermitage Dam has dried up, while the two other souces have provided about four million gallons of water per day. However, he said more than twice as much is needed to keep the levels stable. Mr. Buchanan, who was speaking Monday afternoon on RJR’s call-in programme, Hotline, said inflows to the Mona Reservoir are also below normal. Water levels at the Mona Reservoir and Hermitage Dam, which serve much of St. Andrew, are now in the region of 30 per cent of capacity. Effective Sunday night, the NWC began imposing supply restrictions. The NWC is reminding customers they are not required to pay for the water it trucks to areas affected by water shortages.
This is serious, we are not even in the summer yet, and technically it is the rainy season now.