NOW that Senator Jesse Lujan has called GWA out on their illegal activities, they only seem too eager to defend the abuses they committed against the people of Guam. GWA took the law into its own hands by shutting off water to residents who simply did not have a water shut-off valve. Where does GWA get off making its own laws?
It is sheer arrogance that they believed they had the authority to turn people’s water off without any law or ordinance to back up their actions. I guess it should come as no surprise that the GWA head is now trying to block Senator Lujan’s bill from passing. The GWA leadership is questionable at best and this incident further demonstrates their uncaring attitude for their customers.
GWA does not want a bill to pass that re-emphasizes the legal fact that they cannot change laws without the express authorization of the Guam legislature. GWA does not want accountability and will not even accept responsibility for wrongdoing when they have been caught red-handed!
The GWA leadership is concerned only with self-interest and has somehow gotten the idea that the laws should only be followed when they suit their own ends. But I am glad GWA is trying to fight Lujan’s bill because it calls even more attention to their terrible attitude and unwillingness to obey the law.
I am glad that Senator Lujan has taken up the standard on this issue, and I am confident that he will see to it with the passage of this bill that GWA and other possible line agencies will think twice before implementing their own self-serving policies, which always come at the expense of the people.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, has a right to have water, and it is absolutely criminal that GWA went around depriving people of water simply because they did not have a shut-off valve. Maybe the water should be shut off to the GWA head’s home for a few days so he knows what it’s like not to have water. The punishment fits the crime.

ARCINIA PANGELINAN
Dededo, Guam