Business View Caribbean, July/August 2018

68 69 Lifestyle Protection Creative insurance solutions. insurance, health, pensions, life BritCay offers creative business insurance and lifestyle protection products, with excellent customer service. As a member of Colonial Group International (CGI), we have helped settle over $450 million in hurricane related claims since 2004.The group manages $430 million in pension contributions and premium income and offers the best insurance at the best possible price. Tel 949-8699 or visit britcay.ky BRITISH CAYMANIAN INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED BritCay House, 236 Eastern Avenue, George Town, P.O. Box 74, Grand Cayman KY1-1102 Tel. 949-8699 www.britcay.ky A member of Colonial Group International Ltd. insurance, health, pensions, life cgigrp Congratulations to Water Authority Cayman on achieving 35 years of providing a vital service to our community. THEWATER AUTHORITY OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS ed water.This plant was soon replaced by a reverse osmosis plant to meet the increased demand within its rapidly growing water distribu- tion system. “Reverse osmosis was still a relatively new technology when the Authority decided to investigate it as a way to desalinate brackish groundwater at the commercial scale.The Authority and the Cayman Islands Government had the foresight to embrace this technology with the understanding that the local need for it was only going to grow.The Authority continues to work with an eye to the future to en- sure our infrastructure can sustain the rate of socio-economic growth that the Cayman Islands has come to experience as routine.” BVC: Can you talk about the Authority’s growth and its day-to-day operations? Frederick-van Genderen: “Even for someone who has been with the Authority for 30 years, it can be hard to explain the pace of develop- ment that the organization–and the country as a whole–has ex- perienced. In the space of just a few decades, the Authority has gone WHAT: A statutory body providing water and sewer services for the Cayman Islands WHERE: Headquarters in George Town, Grand Cayman WEBSITE: www.water authority.ky AT A GLANCE THE WATER AUTHORITY OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS from being a small, government department with half a dozen people to an organization of more than 130 employees serving more than 18,000 customer accounts with water and sewerage services. “The Authority currently has 5 RO plants and 10 reservoirs with a combined total storage capacity of 14.2 million US gallons.The Authority is currently working with the Florida Aquastore to construct a new, factory-coated bolted steel water storage tank at our Red Gate Water Works facility.Once complet- ed, this tank will add another 2 million US gallons to our current storage capacity. “The Authority’s public water supply service cur- rently includes Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac, but we also have plans to expand service to Little Cay- man, the smallest of our three islands.Our current focus in the Sister Islands, however, is on Cayman Brac and successful completion of the PipedWater Expansion Project there.The Authority opened its first RO plant in Cayman Brac in 1991, and began providing trucked water service thereafter.As the Brac continues to grow, trucking the water required (especially to developments with large water re- quirements such as the Faith Hospital) is no longer economically viable. “Our water supply service area does not include West Bay which is served via the (much smaller) water distribution system owned by CaymanWater Company, a private company operating under a li- cense from Government.The Authority also provides