It should be a one-day protest, but it won't be the last one. The PPRN issue isn't going to be resolved quickly. The water quality issue may be faster to resolve. It took SAUR on St Barth almost a year to find a solution to a similar problem. Hopefully something was learned from that, which will assist ARS on St Martin to come to a timelier resolution. The water pricing issue is hard to make a guess on. It could go either way, but will more likely end up in ARS' favor.


One interesting quote, and this applies to both St Barth and St Martin: “It is extremely important that the population knows from when the first controls and analysis of the water was done, if it was a year ago or 10 years ago, and what were the results,” The question raised is whether the testing for Bromates is new, and they could have always been present, or if the testing has been ongoing, and the presence of Bromates is new.