The National Water Commission’s pioneering and innovative COVID Assistance Programme (CAP) has been extended until August 31, 2020 for select categories of customers. Customers who have outstanding balances as at the 31st of May, 2020 are now eligible to take advantage of the extension. These customers will continue to benefit from the thirty percent (30%) discount on their outstanding balances...

As the country continues to grapple with the effects of the worsening drought conditions and with source inflows in continuous decline, the National Water Commission (NWC) is forced to adjust its supply times to customers who are served by the Mona Treatment Plant. Starting Monday July 20, 2020, there will be an adjustment in the daily supply time, reducing supply...

The Rural Water Supply Limited (RWSL) is spending an additional $528 million on potable water infrastructure projects this financial year to benefit 45,000 citizens. This was disclosed by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, as he provided an update on the Government’s water initiatives and drought management response during a virtual...

As part of its continued efforts in exercising its corporate social responsibility, the nation’s leading water provider the National Water Commission (NWC), has to date employed over 300 at risk youth to gather vital information through its Customer Census Mapping Project. By definition, at risk youth are persons who due to a range of factors are deemed less likely to...

Scores of residents in several Corporate Area communities are set to experience a significant improvement in their water supply as the replaced Ferry six hundred millimeter diameter (600 mm ф) pipeline is now in operation. Residents would recall the major disruption that occurred with the old Eighteen-inch diameter (18”ф) pipeline, popularly known as the Ferry Eighteen-inch (18”ф). The new system...

Exceptional and far reaching measures have been taken to prevent unauthorized persons from entering the Greater Portmore Wastewater Treatment site in St. Catherine and interfering with crocodiles at the facility. The NWC implemented the measures to safeguard public safety and protect the crocodiles in their natural habitat. The installation of approximately 600 meters of perimeter fencing is now under way...

President of the National Water Commission (NWC), Mark Barnett, says there has been a significant increase in the trucking of water to communities across the island. He informed that 7,960 loads of water have been trucked since March 18. “We would normally be focusing on NWC supply areas, but that has been, more or less, eliminated under the circumstances (coronavirus...