{"id":353152,"date":"2025-12-02T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=353152"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:40:34","slug":"water-outages-in-wallhouse-under-investigation-by-dowasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/water-outages-in-wallhouse-under-investigation-by-dowasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Water outages in Wallhouse under investigation by DOWASCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-300493\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/istock-water_aff72ab5ab86bbb83fcc93e489e6c424-1-e1679496016843-642x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residents of Wallhouse have reportedly been experiencing frequent and, at times, prolonged water interruptions, prompting the Dominica Water and Sewerage Co Ltd (DOWASCO) to apologize for the inconvenience to its consumers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPlease be advised that we are actively investigating the underlying cause of these interruptions,\u201d Public Relations Officer (PRO) of DOWASCO, Kimani St Jean, said during a statement. \u201cWe have already carried out several assessments across the system and will continue to conduct further technical checks to identify and resolve the issue as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These, she said, include monitoring the supply network to the tank, as well as investigations into the distribution system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, St Jean pointed out that while these measures continue, DOWASCO plans to keep the community updated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAdditional information will be shared as soon as it becomes available,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St Jean added, \u201cWe thank the residents of Wallhouse for their patience and understanding as we work to restore consistent and reliable water service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of Wallhouse have reportedly been experiencing frequent and, at times, prolonged water interruptions, prompting the Dominica Water and Sewerage Co Ltd (DOWASCO) to apologize for the inconvenience to its consumers. \u201cPlease be advised that we are actively investigating the&#8230;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":300493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,285,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-carousel","category-infrastructure","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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