Improved water quality for Barticians

─ residents to benefit from new water filtration system

DPI, Guyana, Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Barticians are slated to benefit from improved water supply within the week as the town has a new water filtration system. This was made possible through the continued effort of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) to provide clean potable water countrywide.

The system is geared at further removing harmful solvents from the water flowing through their taps.

Managing Director of GWI, Dr. Richard Van West-Charles underscored the importance of the government making provision of this critical service for all Guyanese in keeping with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Six of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which focuses on providing clean water and adequate sanitation for citizens.

He emphasised that the entire population should have access to potable water and GWI is working assiduously to ensure this reality in the coming years.

Just recently, Nappi, an Indigenous Community in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region (Region 9) benefitted from a new well that was drilled at a depth of 144 metres. The well will benefit over 700 residents in the community and ease their burden of having to walk almost one mile to fetch water for daily use.

Additionally, according to the managing director, the communities of 4 Mile and 5 Mile in Bartica should begin to benefit from the new system by Independence Day, May 26.

“We will be taking water from the surface, passing it through, treating it and redistributing to the population. We are going to put a new set of filters which would improve the quality even further and provide the opportunity for more water in that area,” Dr. Van West-Charles explained.

Nateshia Isaacs.

Images: Giovanni Gajie.