FOLLOWING the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) announcement that tomorrow it would begin a disconnection campaign after closure of its ‘Free Pass’ campaign, more than 300 persons, responding to a televised advertisement and disconnection notices, showed up at the water company’s head office at Shelterbelt at Church Street and Vlissengen Road, Georgetown to make payments to avoid being disconnected for the festive season.

Long lines bearing more than 300 persons waited to make payments, while others entered the “Water Friendly Payment Plan” in an effort to avoid disconnection and removal of their service by the water utility on yesterday.

GWI said all their offices in all divisions will be opened to facilitate customers, even on the last day, from 9am to 2pm, since there will be no extension of the GWI “Free Pass” campaign, which had been ongoing for six weeks.

Customers yesterday said their desire not to be without water for the festive Christmas season is what prompted them to show up at the GWI to make the necessary payments. And they were even more motivated when they saw the advertisement on television featuring Michael Ignatius.

GWI said that most of the customers who visited the office yesterday entered the ‘Water Friendly Payment Plan’, having not made any payments to the GWI since early this year.

(Michel Outridge)