SEWAGE PROBLEMS.(Brief Article) From: Caribbean Update | Date: July 1, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Caribbean Update, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Minister John Humphrey reported to the Senate that 15 million gallons of raw sewage are flowing every day into the Caroni River. This was happening because the system established 37 years ago by the American firm Lockjoint (responsible for laying the sewage mains for the entire western peninsula and building a facility in the Beetham for processing the human waste) was not working. The massive ponds are sludged up and...

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