GWI urges hotels, hospitals to store water

-$100m well being drilled at shelter belt

Hotels, hospitals, restaurants and other service providers in Georgetown are being urged to store water as the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) further reduces the supply to the city in the face of a deepening crisis caused by the prolonged drought.

On Wednesday, GWI advised that water levels in the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) had decreased further, resulting in the utility reducing service provided to Georgetown customers via the Shelter-Belt Water Treatment Facility from 10:00pm.

Yesterday, the utility’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Richard Van West-Charles revealed that