Dear Editor,
We are told by Guyana Water Inc. that water is life; yet, here in my area, the GWI well is in the middle of a cemetery at Fyrish Village, surrounded by flood water since the rainy season started.
In fact, the cemetery is under water for most of the year, and how safe the water from that well is is anybody’s guess. For those of us who have water filters, after one week, the filter is covered with a thick black-and-green muck, we have to change our filters every week.
Editor, over the years, people have called on successive Governments to close down that well and drill a new one in a safer and more secure area, so that we, the people, can access a better quality of water.
Editor, this brings me to the reason I am writing this letter to you. Early this year, Minister Collin Croal and a team from his Ministry and officials of GWI visited my community of Chesney/ Kilcoy South, to meet with the people and to address issues affecting them. And the number one issue raised was the well at Fyrish Village and the quality of water that we are getting.
The Minister promised the people that GWI would soon begin the drilling of a new well. The people were elated, and thanked him in advance of the fulfilment of his promise. A few months later, during the recent floods, no other than President Irfaan Ali visited our community, and he, too, promised the people that we would have a new well.
We are waiting for a new well. We are still waiting for a new well, so that we can also enjoy clean, potable and treated water.
Yours faithfully,
Imtiaz Baccus
