Pigeon Island resident worried about water quality

Green water being paraded as treated water will definitely seem a prank to many. But it is just such a situation that Mr. Arjoon Rambharrat of Lot 30 Chateau Margot, Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara is faced with. Tuesday he shared concerns about the quality of water he has been receiving for years.

Rambharrat brought a sample of green water, which he claims to have received, compliments of GWI, with the claim that it is treated water. The man said that he became aware of the level of contamination of his GWI water supply after he started using a filtration system. Making reference to the green colouration of his water Rambharrat said, “I think it is fungus…it is green, it is in the water so germs has to be in it as well. This has to be highly, highly contaminated; it seems as if it is the trench water coming into the pipeline. This has made me asked the question, ‘Is GWI pumping water straight from the trench into the main?’ “Though the supply of water is regular and the pressure is excellent, the water is deadly…” complained Rambharrat.

The man said that he has, on a number of occasions, called GWI offices to share his concern but has to date gotten no favourable reaction. “I have been pushed around many times; I have called the East Coast Demerara office at Bachelor’s Adventure and they have done nothing, and I have called the main office Shelter Belt and they keep saying that they are going to flush the system and there is going to be some improvements in the near future,” related Rambharrat. But up to yesterday that near future had not reached. In fact, the only thing different that happened yesterday was Rambharrat’s visit to the GWI’s Shelter Belt office armed with a sample of the contaminated water. The man said that his visit there was to engage the company’s Operations Manager, Dwayne Shako, to whom he had spoken by telephone the day before.

(Kaieteurnews)