Over $600 million is spent annually on procuring chemicals to treat the water supply, Managing Director of Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Richard Van West-Charles revealed on Monday and he said that the utility intends to significantly reduce this cost by using new filter technology.
Van-West Charles made the pronouncement at the GWI’s end-of-year press conference where he said that approximately $600M is spent on chemicals every year.
“Three sites that use a lot of chemicals (are) Georgetown, Bartica and Linden. The chemicals are needed because we are using a lot of surface water so it has to be properly treated and disinfected to remove the colour. It entails importing a lot of chemicals,” Van West-Charles said.
