Water supply to President’s College has been restored, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has told the Government Information Agency.
According to Yuri Chandisingh, Chief Executive Officer (ag) of GWI, from information gathered, the institution had not installed adequate ground storage facilities to supply buffer water supplies during periods of system disruption.
Singh was quoted in the release as saying, “we have been encouraging institutions and private individuals to provide adequate internal storage.”
He said that in a letter dated September 19, 2007, to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, GWI had observed that existing schools and those under construction were not equipped with adequately-sized ground reservoirs for the storage of water for fire-fighting purposes. Recommendations, Chandisingh said, were made for the necessary provisions to be made in the 2008 Budget to have the critical infrastructural component installed at all school locations.
Following maintenance work on the Haslington Pump Station on April 28, the water supply was restored to the school.
