Decades of intermittent water supply and drinking untreated water came to end for 10,400 residents and villagers of Savusavu, Vanua Levu, after the commissioning of a $4.5 million treatment plant at Naqere yesterday.
Opening the project, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said the investment would serve the township, communities, hotels, hospital and businesses.
“Despite the cyclones, floods and the global pandemic, this promise of a reliable, resilient and future-oriented wastewater treatment plant has been delivered,” he said.
“Regardless, we are making sure that Savusavu has never had a more reliable water and wastewater supply.”
Mr Bainimarama said the project meant that the people of Vanua Levu would experience the benefits that others in Fiji enjoyed.
“It is the vision we are always working towards — for a stronger, more modern and more compassionate Fiji.
“That is more than my duty as your Prime Minister, it is my personal commitment to each of you.”
He said years of under-investment and short-sighted planning had produced ageing and increasingly unreliable pipes.
