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GWI Water system in Bartica needs urgent upgrading

Jul 03, 2013 Letters


Dear Editor,
A number of residents of Bartica are very displeased with the Guyana Water Inc.(GWI) water system. At present GWI is carrying out a water disconnection exercise for residents whom the water company claimed did not pay for water for quite some time.
Residents are not supportive of the action taken by GWI since a lot of them have said that they didn’t receive water from GWI since the year started.  Some other resident said that they did not receive water from GWI for a number of years.
Residents complain that the potable water system is very poor and the water is unhealthy for drinking and even to wash white clothes.  A lot of the resident that lives in the Four Miles Housing Scheme said that they have never received water from GWI since GWI installed its system.
All they received are water bills and the pipeline that run to their home. The residents said they mainly depend on the rain to fill their black tanks. In the absence of the rain they would buy water from the fire truck.
GWI does not even have a proper administrative system. Residents said that when they observer burst pipelines on the roads and they call GWI office to make a report most times the repairs would come months later.
Some residents of the housing scheme said that they spend their own money to run pipelines from the main road to their home, because when GWI was installing the pipelines in the area a lot remained.
These are no where around which conforms the views that the pipelines ether went back to Georgetown or were converted to personal use.
What did GWI do with the remainder of pipelines after the installation?
Micah Williams

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