And staying on the subject of City Hall - construction works are happening all across the city - as multiple streets are being paved simultaneously.
It's Mayor Darrell Bradley's big pitch for the Municipal Bond - but the truth is, BWS just can't keep up with the rapid pace of paving.
And so the utility is all over the city - refitting the network of pipes that snake under streets.
One neighborhood that says it has been acutely inconvenienced is the area in and around Electric Avenue in the Lake Independence Area.
Work has been ongoing for weeks - and that has meant intermittent, daily water outages.
Today, two neighbors, asking to appear off camera told us how badly it has inconvenienced them:
Area Resident
"Two weeks now the water pressure goes from like after 8 in the morning and it doesn't come back until after 6 in the evening. I am really frustrated because I have two kids; my son always runs up and down around here and I can't even bath him. My daughter doesn't have on her shirt because there is no water to bath her. We can't even cook; when we cook we have to buy purified water and that is really expensive because we are poor people."
"It's really frustrated because without water you can't do anything; you cannot bath or cook or anything. I am very frustrated."
"When the water do comes back on you have to let it run for half hour to one hour because it is dirty."
Area Resident
"For the past two weeks now I went to ask the WASA personnel out there what us the problem but they say that they are trying to fix the problem. I don't know what is the problem with them and I really want an answer."
Area Resident
"Today is Tuesday, this is been happening for a long time. I came back from Placencia and have a lot of dirty clothes."
A BWS representative today told us that they did not send out the notice for the area as they should have. He says that is something they will quote, "get on."
He said there is no definitive time for when the work on those streets will finish.
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