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Reptile flows through Berbice tap
The reptile which flowed out of the tap of a Nurseville resident last Thursday
New Amsterdam, Berbice- A housewife of Nurseville, a community located on the outskirts of New Amsterdam, last Thursday, got the shock of her life as she was doing her daily chores.
As she returned to pick up a bucket of water, she noticed a creature in the bucket. Upon closer examination, with the help of her husband and daughter, she discovered that it was a tiny snake that had just slithered out of her tap and into the bucket of water.
The woman (name given) was horrified to say the least, but she was not surprised that a tiny reptile had come out of her tap since other ‘things’ have been flowing out of her tap over the past couple of months.
At one time, she said that earthworms and tiny fishes came out of the pipe. Then, on another occasion, the housewife described what she thought was something which appeared to be sheep guts flowing out of the water in her standpipe.
When Kaieteur News made contact with the woman on Friday evening, the housewife stated that the snake had disintegrated very badly after being in the bucket of water, so she had to dispose the water.
The resident said that she does not drink the tap water that Guyana Water Incorporated provides to her since she does not feel that it is fit for human consumption, more so after she had discovered reptiles and other animals in the water.
She fears that there may be a breakage in the pipelines in the area. When asked if the residents ever made a report to GWI’s New Amsterdam water treatment plant, she replied in the affirmative and stated that all they did was collect a few bottles of samples of the water to take for testing, but heard nothing back from them.
“They say we getting treated water; I don’t know what kind of treated water we getting.”
At least one other resident reported to Kaieteur News about similar occurrences with the water, and that the quality of water that they receive bears the appearance like that of the Berbice River. (Leon Suseran)
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