The Caribbean’s Water and Sewerage Association (CAWASA) has pledged to keep its head above water in 2024, to continue achieving its lofty mission of helping prevent Caribbean water utilities from drowning or dying from thirst as the region continues reaping its share of the world’s widening water woes.
SAINT Lucians are being called-upon by the Water and Sewerage Company (WASCO Inc.) to realistically assess the grave problems and challenges facing the local water company and start to understand that the only way it will be able to remain floating is through urgent capital injection, whether by government, through a rate increase, or both.
Twenty-twenty three (2023) was not exactly a wet year for water. Instead, last year was the hottest year on record, a reflection of the acute changes haunting humankind in the 21st Century, accelerating faster everywhere than ever before.