Guyana Water Incorpo-rated (GWI) customers will have to pay increased rates from October 1st as the company will be instituting the second phase of tariff increases approved by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) last year.
The PUC, via Order No 2 of 2018, dated June 7th, 2018, had approved GWI’s application for the increases.
“After careful consideration of the views expressed by the various stakeholders, namely the GWI Officials, Consumers Association and the members of the public, the Commission here-by approves the following rates to be implemented in two phases,” the Commis-sion had stated, while noting that phase one would be made effective from October 1st, 2018, while the second phase would become effective from October 1st this year.
