For residents of the mountainous Babonneau district in Saint Lucia, turning on a home tap is no longer a guarantee of running water. For weeks on end, widespread outages have upended daily routines, leaving community members grappling with a frustrating paradox: even with abundant natural rivers and springs flowing across their landscape, consistent access to clean piped water remains out of reach for thousands. This report unpacks the overlapping technical, climatic, and financial factors that have turned episodic water scarcity into a persistent crisis for Babonneau.