OVER the next few weeks, engineers from Guyana Water Inc. will be working to improve access to potable water for residents of Paramakatoi, Region Eight.

During a meeting in the village on Monday, Susan Rodrigues, Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, informed residents of the plans for their community.

She noted that the administration remains committed to ensuring development reaches every community.

Minister Rodrigues stated that the goal is to bridge the gap between the hinterland and the coast to improve access to potable water in hinterland communities.

She further stated that the goal is to ensure 100 per cent water coverage in hinterland communities by 2025. To this end, the government continues to invest heavily in the water sector.

Meanwhile, under the 2023 work programme, Paramakatoi is expected to benefit from the drilling of two potable water wells and the constructing of the well discharge to interconnect with the existing distribution network to provide adequate potable water to the residents.

Currently, the community, home to some 300 people, is supplied with water from a spring. However, water is distributed on a sectional delivery basis due to limited production of the spring.

Also, the residents, during the meeting, took the opportunity to raise several issues affecting them, as they sought the government’s intervention.