TEAMS from the Water Authority of Fiji (WAF) are working round the clock to normalise water supply to customers facing low pressure or intermittent supply in the greater Lami, Suva and Tamavua areas.
The authority has urged Fijians to conserve water, citing the critical level in both the Waimanu River and the Tamavua Water Treatment Plant, attributed to the lack of rainfall.
WAF general manager Customer Services and Acting GM Operations Sekove Uluinayau said their divers had been deployed to attend to clear suspected blockages, which were made up of mud silt at the pump water wells at the Waimanu Water Pumping Station, along the Waimanu River in Sawani.
He said the raw water from the Waimanu River was pumped to both the Tamavua Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and Headworks – which is at a critical level at present – in order to supply water to Tamavua (treatment plant) for treatment before distributing it to customers.
“We request members of the public in affected areas to bear with us. Unfortunately, rainfall is something we cannot control but our teams are working around the clock to normalise water supply,” Mr Uluinayau said.
The affected areas include the elevated parts of Princess Road (Tamavua to Colo-I-Suva), Namadi Heights, Wairua, Wailoku, Samabula, Rewa Street, Waimanu Road, and Ratu Sukuna Road, as well as elevated areas within Wairua, Wailoku, Delainavesi, Qauia Street to Veisari.
Water carting trucks have been arranged to service the disrupted areas.
