Guyana Water Inc (GWI) yesterday commissioned two recently acquired drilling rigs, which the company’s management expects to increase the amount of water supplied on the coast and in the hinterland.
GWI Managing Director Dr. Richard Van West-Charles told a commissioning ceremony yesterday that planned drilling would lay the foundation for the utility to supply all of Central Georgetown on a 24-hour basis.
Van West-Charles said that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how critical the need for water is and he said the timing of the acquisition of the drilling rigs could not have been better. He emphasised that it was good foresight on behalf of the Government of Guyana and GWI’s management and staff to see it necessary for the company to reinstate its drilling capacity.