A person can now be charged and imprisoned for wasting water. This is as stakeholders continue to tackle the decline in access to potable water across the island amidst drought conditions. Jamaica, the land of wood and water, is contrastingly experiencing a severe...
Customers at the National Water Commission’s, NWC, Head Office in Kingston, were on Monday at their breaking point with customer service. The customers tell our news team they have been waiting for hours with no communication from management. Meanwhile, Acting...
Residents from Bounty Hall in Trelawny on Monday took their cries for water to the source of their grouse blocking the gate to the National Water Commission, NWC, Treatment Plant in Martha Brae. They say they have gone months without potable water and demand the...
While we have seen many protests for water and the wetting of roads causing dust nuisance, it is not very often that we hear cries spurred by an overflow. However, such was the plight of one St. Catherine resident who has been suffering since November because of a...
We examine the current realities as well as the way forward for water access and distribution in Jamaica. To discuss we are joined by the President of the National Water Commission (NWC), Mark Barnett. Did you know 75 % of the total volume of water currently produced...
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