The Water Authority of Fiji is urging all residents living in parts of Nadi and Lautoka to boil all drinking water if they are experiencing discolored water.
The Authority says this is a precautionary measure and they are working to eliminate the presence of discolored water in the Nadi and Lautoka water system which is fed from the Nagado Water Treatment Plant.
The Authority’s General Manager Customer Services Sekove Uluinayau says the Authority had detected an increase of iron and manganese at the Nagado Water Treatment Plant from raw water sourced from the Vaturu Dam and is working to decrease these levels.
He says the Authority has placed aeration systems at the Nagado Water Treatment Plant’s inlet chamber to pump in oxygen to decrease the levels of iron and manganese at the water source in the Vaturu Dam and they are also applying pre and post chlorination at the plant.
