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WASA: Island-wide blackout affected water production

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News FILE PHOTO THE Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has said that its water production facilities have been affected by an island-wide power outage on Wednesday. Around 1 pm, several areas across the country were without electricity after a sudden outage. The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) said it was working on fixing the “major disturbance,” but that the cause remains unknown. Electricity has slowly begun restoring in different places, […]

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