8.34 million Nagado Water Treatment Plant Benefits 38,810 Households in Nadi

The new $8.34 million Nagado water treatment plant will benefit 38,810 households in Nadi according to Minister for Public Works, Transport, and Meteorological Service, Ro Filipe Tuisawau.

Ro Filipe was in the west visiting new government-funded projects sites.

“The new water treatment plant incorporates with the new technologies where processing and critical data can be monitored from Lautoka and Suva,” Ro Filipe said

“The importance of updated new technologies, is that it evaluates the amount of water that needs to be used,” he said.

“It is very important that we have updated technologies in water in monitoring and that data is captured to give a fair idea of how much water we are using for households, farms or industries allowing us to plan accordingly in moving forward.

“As we understand, the resources are limited and whatever development we go through we must match the resources that we have so that we don’t end up in the future with huge problems regarding the environment.”

There is an on-going construction works on the pipeline from Varaqe to Saru in Lautoka. There is also, an on-going construction of the Nagado water Treatment Plant to Nadele, Nadi. These projects will be completed by December this year.

“In the Nadi and Lautoka areas, given the developments that are coming up not only hotels, industrial areas, sub-divisions and other developments it requires water,” Ro Filipe said

“That was why we need to look at all developments in a sustainable manner.

“How much water can we extract and the number of developments which must meet the availability of resources that we have whether it is water, land or other resources.

“It is critical to balance developments.”