Residents in multiple districts of northern Barbados’ St Peter parish are being put on early notice to prepare for potential water service disruptions next Monday, August 10, as the island’s national water utility carries out critical infrastructure upgrades. The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) announced that maintenance teams will be on site working on a new water connection in the Gibbs neighborhood, with all works scheduled to run between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. that day. During the entire 11-hour work window, households and businesses across a wide affected area – encompassing Gibbs Glades, Gibbs Road, Piedmont Road, Ascot Avenue, and all smaller surrounding communities – can expect inconsistent service, ranging from sustained low water pressure to complete temporary outages. To minimize the disruption to daily routines, the BWA has issued a formal recommendation that all customers in the impacted zone store sufficient quantities of drinking and household water in advance of the scheduled work. The utility has also issued a public apology for the unavoidable inconvenience that the construction work will cause for local residents, noting that the connection project is necessary to improve long-term water service reliability for the area.