The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is building a new $20M well at Somerset, Region Two to benefit 5,000 residents.

A press release from the Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) quoted GWI Divisional Manager Ravindra Deonaraine as saying that the civil work on the construction and development of the water treatment facilities is about 20% complete. “The new well will boost the water pressure from Charity and the area that is receiving low pressure…as a result of the underperformance of the present well residents here receive water from the existing well once every three days…so to alleviate all water woes in this area Government saw it necessary to construct another well,” he said.

Recently GWI embarked on implementing a strategic ‘Turn Around Plan’ for the sector to boost services to customers. The Plan includes acquiring new capital infrastructure such as wells and distribution networks and consolidating existing capital investments. 

GINA said Great Falls, Sand Hill, Kimbia, Wiruni and Wikki/Calcuni all in Region Ten are set for these interventions. Under the hinterland water strategy about 55 wells were dug or rehabilitated in areas such as Mahdia, Mabaruma, Waramuri in Region One, Laluni and St Cuthbert’s Mission in Region Four, among others.