A five-member team from Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is in the Netherlands undergoing three weeks of well regeneration training.
A release from GWI said that those participating in the training are: Operations Director, Dwayne Shako; Well Maintenance Engineer, Kerene Gordon; Maintenance Manager, Peter Barkoye; Driver/Expeditor, Sean Moore and Craftsman, Timothy Sutton.
GWI had earlier this year announced the purchasing of equipment for well maintenance, which included a regeneration vehicle which was sourced from Dutch company, Q-Flow International and which is equipped with the necessary well maintenance tools.
The training, conducted by Q-Flow International, will endow the participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to utilise the said vehicle for well development, regeneration and capacity increasing. The practical component of the training sees the participants utilising that very vehicle.
As a result of the new equipment and the training of the utility’s key personnel to operate same, GWI will be able to prevent a reduced level of service and disruption of the water supply to citizens during the maintenance of its wells, the release said.
According to Dutch newspaper, Tubantia, upon completion of the training in the Netherlands, the vehicle will be shipped to South America and a second round of training will take place in Suriname.
The newspaper also quotes Gordon, the only female team member, as saying “Work is done very structured in the Netherlands – I love it. And the way in which maintenance takes place in Guyana, is basically the same. Only the methods here are much more developed. We will soon apply in Guyana what we have learned here.”
