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Article: JAMAICA
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- Caribbean Update
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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Severe water restrictions in Kingston. Below average rainfall in recent months has forced Jamaica's National Water Commission (NWC) to cut water supplies to just eight hours daily for most residential areas in the capital, Kingston, and the neighboring southern St. Catherine, it was reported August 23. The business and industrial districts of the city will receive water for 14 hours daily. The NWC says that its Heritage dam, which has a maximum capacity of 398 million gallons of water, had only 165 million gallons, while the Mona dam (capacity: 809 million gallons) had just 430 million gallons. At least 100 million gallons of the available water is "unusable" because of ...
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