Basseterre, St. Kitts (MoPIEUDT NEWS) – As the public looks keenly at the state of water services in St. Kitts, one citizen has implemented a simple but effective method to conserve the water she collects from a public pipe in Ogees. To protect her identity, we will refer to her only as Amy.
MoPIEUDT NEWS encountered Amy on April 10, 2025. As our communications team prepared to shoot a water conservation video, Amy emerged with approximately ten 5-litre bottles from her vehicle. We subsequently learned that Amy was engaging in a regular practice of collecting water from the pipe for daily use, but it was her method and the reasons behind it that sparked our interest.
Amy put the first bottle under the tap, connected a black hose about 2 feet long to the tap, placed the other end in the bottle, and then turned the tap on. She turned the tap off without overflow or wasted drops when she filled the bottle. Each time, she turned the tap on and off without any spills.
We asked Amy why she did this. She gave us a simple and impactful answer.
“It is efficient, and it doesn’t waste water.”
Amy, An Ordinary Citizen
With her technique and those simple words, Amy turned our team of water conservation ambassadors into her students. MoPIEUDT News went to Ogees to disseminate the message of water conservation. However, Amy’s natural embodiment of that objective through her mindfulness and careful actions demonstrated how simple actions like these from unexpected people can make a more significant impact than even the production we set out to film.
Typically, there are no lights or cameras on Amy when she visits the pipe; it is just Amy, as she naturally is, a caring and thoughtful human being who understands the importance of water conservation and demonstrates it even when no one else is looking. That is the biggest lesson of them all.
