Quote Originally Posted by brownsd54 View Post
This might be a stupid question Rob, but if you don't know the answer, there is no such thing a stupid questions, right.

100's of water trucks in Negril right now. Some nicer looking trucks, some look like they may have served in WWII. These trucks racing back a fourth because the more deliveries the more the money. It's just a matter of time before a tourist or visitor gets hit and killed by one racing down the road. Right now the trucks are lined up at Hedo where they must be getting a hundred deliveries a day. So here is my question. The drivers are getting the water from a source that I think is in the Morass. This isn't swamp water but water bubbling up through the limestone and rain runoff from the hills. Why can't NWC tap into that source, send it to Logwood where it would be treated and then piped to Negril?
The NWC could do that but the government is preventing it. There would have to be years of studies, reports, meetings, more studies, reports and meetings before money would be allocated. Then what they call the "Procurement Procedure" to take place, which essentially prevents the Ministries from allocating contracts to family and friends. This is why we are asking everyone to write to Minister Bartlett to get the already studied, planned and approved Roaring River 33km of pipe sitting in Little London installed now.

And chances are the source in question is a NWC pipe. There are valves, spigots and supply sources all over Negril. The trucks find the most convenient one and fill'er up! Hydrants are used as well. Even the tanks on Tank Hill and Westland Mountain are being tapped.

And no government agency is doing anything about it. Meanwhile, the residents have no water in their pipes.