by Ian Mabon
Originally published in The Tribune on Friday, May 8, 2009 and reprinted here with the kind permission of the author.
At the risk of offending my friend and brother, Robert Deal, I must ask the Water and Sewerage Corporation how much longer must we endure the RED TIDE.
Week in and week out we persevere, without recourse or compensation, through ruined laundry, stained tubs and toilets and pressure so low one can pee with more force than the faucet.
It is a national disgrace particularly in light of the government’s latest bailout of WSC’s fiscal fiasco and their union’s recent demands for more money despite their abominable performance. Notwithstanding modern RO technology and a wealth of saltwater we are still reduced to drinking, cooking and bathing with rusty water in spite of many of us having invested in, at considerable expense, holding, pressure tanks and pumps as a result of the inconsistent supply. In my business shoddy products or services are made good at the company’s expense on pain of losing customers, not so with the government corporations who seemingly cannot be held accountable for the replacement of ruined clothes, plumbing fixtures or burnt out electrical appliances.
In my view it is past high time that the monopoly on essential services held by government run corporations is broken, paving the way for efficient and accountable private entities to provide the necessary services, water, electricity and communications, required and deserved by a 21st century Bahamas.
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