It seems that the water ration in the city of Port Moresby could continue beyond the scheduled time given by Water PNG, so to allow for further cleanup of debris to take place at the water treatment plant just outside of the nation’s capital city.
According to Water PNG, the initially matter was the cleanup of the debris caused by the heavy rains up in the Sogeri mountains in the Central province, but another issues popped up.
According to a notice put out by the state owned water company, due to a urgent maintenance work carried out by another state owned company, PNG Power Limited, the new schedule will be put out.
The urgent maintenance work at Rouna 1/3 has resulted in the Water PNG plant affected by high turbidity of water from Rouna power stations. Water PNG is expected to put out that revised schedule as soon as the plant is stabilized.
The current water ration was for Saturday 29th to Sunday 30th April; however, the revised one could see the rationing progress further. Water PNG also sent out an apology to its customers in the city of Port Moresby, for the inconveniences caused.
Meanwhile, the reason for the debris affecting the water plant time and time again, was because Water PNG uses the same outlet of water supply that PNG Power uses; therefore, whenever there is some dirt in the water upstream, it affects the water plant and then the cleanup begins.
This issue can be avoid if only the water company has its own separate outlet of supply to its water plant, instead of from the same PNG Power one.