GWI doesn’t care a damn about broken Vryheid’s Lust water main

Sep 20, 2020 Letters

Dear Editor,

Please publish my letter so GWI may respond urgently. On August 13, 2020, I phoned GWI and report that the main pipe bringing water from Better Hope to Vryheid’s Lust was broken. I explained that because of the broken pipe, I am not getting water in my home.

I phoned GWI at least 30 times, they keep telling me that they will forward my complaint to the engineer. They also said they are short of staff and that there were other complaints before me and I have to wait my turn, and my complaint was not urgent. I am a resident of Middle Street, Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara and my reference number from GWI is 1053387-51.

The water from the broken pipe flooded the pasture so now people are unable to use the pasture as a shortcut to go to Better Hope market, to Vryheid’s Lust Primary School, to teacher Amin’s private school, to Plaisance Market, to the drug store, to the supermarket, to the Chinese restaurant, to the butcher man, to the hardware store and many other places.
That broken pipe is near a drain where everybody’s septic tank drains and whenever water cut off (two times per day), the septic tank water flows into the broken pipe, so the water pipe water becomes contaminated with raw sewage which other people have to use and GWI don’t care a damn.

Yours truly,
Mohamed Azad