Electricity and Water woes in Upper West Watooka

Feb 16, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor
We are residents and members of a Farmers’ Group situated in Block ‘G’ Upper West Watooka. We are seeking an early response and action with respect to services requested from the Linden Utilities Cooperative Services and the Guyana Water Incorporated since 2001.
Our community has been deprived of these two commodities, electricity and water. Water is necessary for life. Our livelihood, as well as our children’s education, is affected. We have suffered for years, many of us were born here and became grandparents and great grandparents in this community and never enjoyed these services, the lack of which is affecting our children.
The members of this community have written the two organisations continually since 2001 and to date have been living on unfulfilled promises.
The Guyana Water Incorporated had promised that water will be provided when pipelines were laid and a well dug. To date nothing has happened.
We have no potable water and solely depend on the Demerara River or the rainfall. The water from the river is a death risk since it is contaminated.
The river is used as a latrine and bauxite slush, and the refuse from the Mackenzie Market flushes into the river on a daily basis.
Again in 2001, we wrote the Linden Utilities Cooperative Services Limited appealing for lights.
We also visited the office on many occasions stating our situation as it affects our children’s education, and related examinations.
Then in 2005 the LUSCSL promised to give us electricity and made us cut lines on three occasions. They received some wire for our community from Omai Gold Mines Limited but eventually these wires were given to two other communities for some emergency work.
We visited LUSCSL on another occasion and they came, planted poles and installed a transformer.
That was three years ago but we never received light. We attended a meeting since, concerning the work done only to learn that the transformer was not working.
Last year, residents attended a meeting with his Excellency the President and his Ministers at Watooka Club and we were referred to the Prime Minister who said that he was going to look into the matter.
We again visited the LUSCSL who promised to give us light before the end of last year.
In November 2010 they came, put down some poles and a transformer and never returned.
Mr. Prime Minister, can we inquire how long we should let LUSCSL and GWI make us scapegoats?
Then there is infestation of mosquitoes and worst of all, bats which kill our livestock in numbers at night and cause the residents to forego any kind of business.
The bats are so many at nights that we have to close our windows very early so as to prevent them from entering our homes.
They defecate all over our houses or hang onto the outer walls and mesh. If they enter our homes we have to defend ourselves, or go under our nets because they fly towards you as though they want to bite.
These bats make our lives a living nightmare.
Yours faithfully,
Concerned Residents
Upper West Watooka & Riverain Area

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