Over 40 households at Free and Easy, West Bank Demerara will shortly receive water for the first time, when the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) completes its new $10 million distribution network in the community.
According to a press release from the GWI, the service provision was the initiative of Minister within the Ministry of Communities Keith Scott. It followed a meeting the minister held with residents last month, where they voiced their distress at the lack of water service. The release said the minister committed to installing the community’s first potable water distribution network. He emphasized that the lack of safe water in the community was unacceptable and that he would personally pursue the project.
GWI said infrastructural work, including the installation of pipelines, distribution and transmission mains, commenced in late August and the entire network consisting of in excess of 6,000 feet of pipelines will be completed in a week’s time.
Meanwhile, Executive Director of Operations, GWI, Joseph Codette explained that the new distribution network was funded by GWI, the release said.
He emphasized that new customers must ensure they are registered as GWI customers at the company’s Pouderoyen Customer Services location in order to receive new service connections, it added.
Scott has since commended GWI on the quality of the infrastructural works and urged residents to act as caretakers of the new system so that future generations can enjoy it.
