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Water meter officials doing a lousy job

Sep 06, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I write about the poor management of the Guyana Water In. (GWI) Chesney Division. It has long been a very disgusting and tiresome event to get the GWI to properly read their consumers’ water meters
There are presently field officers associated with GWI that are not doing the job they are being paid to do.
Some of them are at home during working hours and are happily estimating consumers, water reading.
There are residents in the Belvedere area that don’t even know what these water meter readers look like. When one goes into the office for a query you are being told that the day the reader was working no one was at home.
Guyana is a land of many waters and its citizens in the Belvedere and surrounding areas have to pay an estimated bill for an amount of water that they do not even use.
They also say that “water is life, save it” therefore our meter readers should give an accurate reading.
Furthermore let me take time to mention the extremely poor quality of water supplied by GWI. This water is so discoloured that one could mistakenly take it for “orange cool aid”. Water was supposed to be used for the purpose of drinking and washing.
With the condition that it is now you can’t even bathe a white dog with it, the poor thing will eventually transform to an orange dog. Come on GWI, what it the purpose of a water treatment plant when consumers can’t even get treated water.
We are paying our bills up to date and it is not fair what these people are doing, in most homes there is only one breadwinner and it is very hard for us to pay an estimated bill for orange water that they are giving us.
When GWI over estimates their customers’ water rates, to clarify your bill you have to go to the office, if you don’t you end up paying extraordinary money for orange water you did not use.
GWI is shorting-changing the Guyanese people and something should be done about this. I strongly think that the relevant authorities should investigate this.
Water User

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