Eda Ranu staff warned of tough job ahead

STAFF of Port Moresby’s water supply and sewerage service provider Eda Ranu has been urged to deliver services properly to residents in the nation’s capital.
Eda Ranu chairperson Mary Karo told more than 200 staff during their dedication service on Friday that people needed water to survive and that was the mandate of the company – to deliver that service.
Karo said the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in November was the biggest priority for the company.
“Every officer will deliver, every plumber will deliver and there will be no disruption in November’s Apec,” she said.
“Whatever you were doing that was not right last year, please fix it this year.
“Eda Ranu may one day move to other provinces because you have proven many times that you can deliver.”
Managing director Henry Mokono said Eda Ranu would provide three cruise liners about 500,000 litres of water per day during the Apec meeting.
“For us, we want to make it as normal as possible,” he said.
“We have got our teams in place to tackle any issues in terms of water disruptions and water rationing.
“There will be three cruise liners, two of them will be berthing at the main wharf at Fairfax Harbour and one at Motukea.
“We are fully aware of that and we are attending to our facilities in those vicinities because we will be responsible for supplying those cruise liners and discharging the same amount of waste water.
“We are also advised that there will be two warships out of the wharves in Moresby and we will also be supplying water into the warships.
“As a company, we haven’t got ourselves in these types of activities before, this is the first time for us, we have an Apec team at Eda Ranu and some of our senior executives meet on a weekly basis to discuss how we are going to handle the task.”