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Number 47 village residents want access to quality potable water

Apr 09, 2013 News

Residents of Number 47 village in Region Ten (Upper Demerara/Berbice) are calling on the authorities to establish a source of potable water for the village and its environs.
The village, population 300 persons, is located along the Linden- Lethem Highway on the watershed between the Demerara and Essequibo Rivers , 50 miles south of Linden  and just  few miles north of Mabura .
Residents of the village complained that they have not had a source of potable water in the area for the past five years.
A spokesman told Kaieteur News that Government, through the Guyana Water Inc., had dug two wells in the village about five years ago, but both wells failed after only weeks in operation.
Residents of the village, a logging and small scale gold mining community,  have since then been relying on a nearby creek for water for drinking and domestic purposes.
But as one pointed out: “The water at the creek ain’t too nice, definitely not too healthy.”
He said that recently a young lady had just dipped her container into the creek and was about to brush her teeth when she saw the corpse of an animal floating in the water nearby.
Each child at the  primary school has to take a container with water to school  to be used during school hours .
The quality of water at the creek gets worse during the dry weather and it is now that period.
The spokesman said that there are a few persons with vehicles who travel to the Demerara River to get a better source of water supplies but, this is some distance away and the majority, particularly those without vehicles,  are suffering.
The residents of the village community are requesting that their plight be looked into urgently.
“We would like a well to be dug in the village or nearby as soon as possible . We want  access to quality water; and a better quality of life.

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