Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, has said that the ministry is moving swiftly to finalise National Drinking Water Regulations under the Public Health Act, to ensure that all Jamaicans have access to safe and adequate water supplies.

The minister was speaking at a recent regional Water Safety Plan (WSP) workshop at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, where he unveiled the plan developed by Jamaica, which will become a template for the development of other plants in the Caribbean and Latin American region.

According to Spencer, the regulations to be put in place will "make the development of WSPs a mandatory requirement for the approval and operation of drinking water supplies (to) shift the responsibility for quality assurance and quality control from the regulators to providers of drinking water".