THE new $450M water treatment plant at Lima, on Essequibo Coast, is on a trial run and some 20,000 consumers, between Walton Hall and Queenstown villages, are receiving treated flow through their taps for the first time.
The factory is first such in Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) and the second largest in the country and the beneficiaries are loud in praise for the Government.
Some residents acknowledged, to the Guyana Chronicle, that the project is history making because Region Two never had a facility like that.
Housewives, especially, said they wash clothes, cook and drink with the water because it is treated. One of them said her bathroom tiles and toilet bowl will not be stained anymore.
The Government, through Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) and the Regional Administration also installed new transmission and distribution pipelines within the beneficiary villages and each household got service connections with installed meters, all at the cost of some $750M.
The plant is expected to be commissioned shortly and Regional Chairman, Mr. Alli Baksh informed, last Friday, that three more wells will be sunk at Aurora, Onderneeming and Lima, also on Essequibo Coast, to deliver potable water to residents of those villages, too.