GWI increases access to water in remote communities
GWI CEO Shaik Baksh addresses Kaikan residents.
Kaieteur News – The Kaikan community in Region Seven (Cuyuni / Mazaruni), bordering neighboring Venezuela, will soon move from 20 percent to 100 percent access to drinking water, with new well drilling and supply upgrades existing water. system there.
This joint effort among Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) and the community, is in line with a commitment made by His Excellency President Mohamed Irfaan Ali during his community visit in December, 2020, GWI statement noted.
He also revealed that the Ministers of Housing and Water will also be instrumental in ensuring that non-serviced communities across the country have access to drinking water.
The visiting team along with members of the community cross the Kaikan land.
GWI staff logging resistance.
GWI CEO, Mr. Shaik Baksh; The Director of Hinterland Services, Mr. Ramchand Jailal, and GDF Reserve Captain and GWI Director of Customer Services, Mr Marlon Daniels, met the community and met with residents to discuss the project to improve the water supply.
The current system, which serves 20 percent of the community, involves pumping water from a nearby river, which is then stored using trestle storage tanks. Residents then access this water from standpipes in strategic locations.
A team from GWI visited the community to conduct resistance logging to find a viable location to drill a new well later this year.
Other works, which will be carried out, include: pipe laying, upgrading the storage facility, installing a photovoltaic system and installing individual service connections.
This project is one of many that aims to achieve 100 percent access to drinking water nationwide by 2025, as outlined in GWI’s five-year Strategic Plan. Basic data from 2019 shows that 96 percent of the population has access to drinking water.
Other areas planned to benefit include Edinburgh in Region Three and Kato and Taruka in Region Eight.