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GWI records highest growth in revenue collection for 2019

Jan 03, 2020 News

The revenue collection by the Guyana Water Incorporated has moved from $3B in 2012 to $5.3B, in 2019. This is according to Managing Director, Dr. Richard Van West-Charles.
Dr. Van West-Charles told members of the press during an end-of-year press conference that under the last decade GWI has worked in collaboration with the government to shift development paradigm with a population with access to potable water to 97% in 2019 with the completion of three treatment plants.
“Development assistance totaled $1.6 B in 2019 for the sector under the IDB/EU Operation.
According to Dr. Van West-Charles, Guyana has achieved an improvement in ranking in terms of the quality of the human development index, looking at the quality and standard of living but the input to all of this is the SDGs Goals in which the population using at least basic drinking water sources.
“Since 2015 GWI started a water quality programme and has so far conducted over 80,000 tests.”
Further, GWI released data promising that by the first half of 2020, the water company will reduce the use of Alum and lime by 50% with the use of PAC.
“This is towards reducing our chemical cost by approximately $20M per month.”
By the end 2020, GWI will seek to reduce the total use of chemicals across the company by 70% with the use of Inline filters.
“Research using locally design inline filters will commence at pump stations across the country in January.”
Installation of online filtration system will begin in January at schools in Essequibo, Region Three, East Coast Demerara.
Intensified cleaning and treatment will be done on the wells to reduce the amount of dissolve iron in the water.
According to the information, GWI will be moving to start exploration drilling through the rocks in Essequibo, with the aim of finding a source of water with less dissolve iron.
“Drilling of multiple smaller diameter creating well fields rather than single well per community will commence in 2020.
“This will see a reduction in well drilling cost by more than 25%.”
“The use of a remote monitoring system to predict blockages on the sewer distribution system will be piloted in the first quarter in 2020.”
Increased use of solar, wind system and other energy saving initiative will continue.
Installation of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system will begin in January of 2020. A target of four stations will be done per month beginning in Region Four.
GWI will also explore the use of Buck- Boost Transformers at its well stations to reduce the low voltages being currently experience.
The use of inline turbines on well station and treatment plants will be explore to power lights and other single phase loads at the pumping stations.
The use of electric vehicles will be explored for crews in the city using inline turbines to charge these vehicles.

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