With massive housing development, GWI to spend $3.6B to build water treatment plants in Reg. 4

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) will expend some $3.6 billion to build water treatment plants to service the massive housing development and other facilities being developed in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica).

Shaik Baksh, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, at a recent press conference said GWI supports the countrywide development by the government. As such, three new water treatment plants are being built; the preparatory works have commenced.

“We will be building a new well at Cummings Lodge because, as you know, the Ministry of Housing has a huge housing development; nearly 2,000 house lots, so we have already cleared the area. We are now building the roads to go into this treatment plant,” Baksh said.

The $3.6 billion covers the expenditure for a 12 megalitre plant at Cummings Lodge; an eight megalitre plant at Caledonia and a 12 megalitre plant at Bachelor’s Adventure.

Baksh said the huge plant for Cummings Lodge will also help certain parts of Sophia where a new well is also being drilled.
“We are upgrading the Sophia treatment plant also so that the people of Cummings Lodge and Sophia receive treated water.”

President Dr Irfaan Ali during a walkabout last week on the lands aback the Cummings Lodge scheme in Georgetown stated that 400 houses were already constructed in that area. A further 185 houses are under construction. But the goal overall, according to the President, is to construct 1,500 houses in that area.

Additionally, a new children and maternity hospital will be built nearby while a raft of private developments will be established in the area.
Seven contracts, amounting to over $8 billion, for the construction of water treatment plants were executed last year. Overall, there will be 13 water treatment plants at Wakenaam, Marias Delight, and Onderneeming in Region Two; Leguan, Parika, Lust-en-Rust and Wales in Region Three; Caledonia, Cummings Lodge, and Bachelors’ Adventure in Region Four; Hope a and Bath in Region Five; and Adventure in Region Six.