Under its new five year strategic plan, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is aiming to achieve 100% access to potable water countrywide by 2025, with 85% of treated water coverage in coastal areas by then.
In a press release issued yesterday, GWI noted that based on baseline data from 2019, 96% of the population has access to potable water. It added that treated water coverage in coastal areas was 53% then.
The release said the programmatic areas of the 2021-2025 plan are: Organisation and Management, Non-Revenue water, Water production, distribution and quality, Finance and customer services and Sanitation.