The Prospect Housing Development on the East Bank is to get potable water in two weeks.
A release yesterday from the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said that Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues visited Prospect Housing Development, East Bank Demerara yesterday upon the request of residents.
GWI said that the residents there currently depend on the rain as their main source of water supply or alternatively, fetch water from a standpipe some distance away in the community.
During her meeting with the residents, Rodrigues said that the Ministry had fallen short on developing new housing areas with access to potable water prior to home owners to taking up occupancy.
As part of plans to provide immediate relief to the community, Rodrigues informed residents that GWI is working to provide water to each household within two weeks. The project would entail connecting pipelines to the Covent Garden water supply system to serve Prospect Housing Development. This would see persons receiving water at a minimum standpipe level as a temporary fix and negate the need for rain water harvesting and the fetching of water.
The Housing and Water Minister explained that she visited the community in August when she had taken up office to assess the situation. As a result, funds to the tune of $80 million have already been transferred to GWI for a long term solution to the community’s water woes. These funds will go towards the drilling of two new wells – one in Farm and the other in Providence.
