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Water Relief For San Pedro From BWS
posted (February 13, 2019)
Last year at Easter San Pedro ran out of water - because the local water company, Consolidated, could not provide enough to the island at capacity. Well that should ease somewhat this year, and by 2020, it should be a distant memory. That's because Belize Water Services has paid Consolidated Water 7 million US dollars for Belize subsidiary.

As we understand it, the money was transferred from the CDB to Consolidated today and that makes the sale final.

The CDB will also put another 1.5 million US dollars towards water system improvements and expansion.

But here's where - San Pedro residents will come up.

Using its own funds, BWS will expand the production capacity by investing in additional Reverse Osmosis plant capacity to meet growing demand on Ambergris Caye. BWS expects to end water shortages and supply restrictions by October 2019, when the next tourist season opens. A release says, quote, "Unfortunately, these improvements will not be fully completed by this Easter in April 2019." End quote. But, the Chairman tells us that some relief will be coming in time for easter, 2019.

That's because in July last year, BWS commenced the construction of an additional one-million-gallon ferro-concrete storage tank. And the first half-million gallon section is scheduled to be completed by March 2019 - just in time for Easter. We'll see how it goes.

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