Potable water for Jackson Creek, Molsen Creek
After years of pleading with officials for potable water, the residents of Jackson Creek and Molsen Creek were delighted yesterday morning as the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) commissioned a water distribution network in Molsen Creek.
Residents of both villages on the lower Corentyne will now receive potable water in their homes for the first time ever.
Managing Director of the GWI, Dr. Richard Van-West Charles explained at the commissioning ceremony held in Molsen Creek that the entire project cost some $10 million, whilst noting that the project was long overdue. He pleaded with the residents gathered to “care the system and protect the system”.
Van-West Charles then committed to ensuring that a solar water well is placed in the area before year end. “I commit to you that before the end of the year we will find the resources to also drill a [water] well in the community,” he said. Charles also congratulated the GWI staff in Region Six who visited the area about three weeks ago, and then immediately began work to ensure that the residents received water at the earliest opportunity.
The project began only after residents of the area voiced their plight at a recent outreach meeting in Crabwood Creek with the Minister of Social Protection, Amna Ally who then set out to bring some sort of relief to the residents.
Ally noted that after hearing how for years the