Head of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Frederick Flatts has denied the claims by veteran rice farmer Ganga ‘Bobby’ Persaud that Water Users Association (WUA) services have been discontinued in the Hague and Blankenburg communities.
The WUA comprises four communities – Hague, Blankenburg, Den Amstel and Fellowship – and would facilitate the servicing of the drainage and irrigation systems locally as opposed to having Central Government, directly through the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) controlling it.
When contacted, Flatts told this newspaper that the NDIA, under the WUA, continues to do drainage and irrigation works in the communities and therefore the claims by Persaud were “very strange.”
He noted that they have been delivering services to the communities for the last eight years under one association and there were no plans to change the arrangement.
