Guyana has com­mis­sioned a GUY$1.35 bil­lion (One Guyana dol­lar=US$0.004 cents) wa­ter treat­ment plant that the au­thor­i­ties say will sig­nif­i­cant­ly trans­form the lives of 16,000 res­i­dents along the West Coast of De­mer­ara through ac­cess to treat­ed wa­ter.

The treat­ment fa­cil­i­ty in Wales, is one of three planned for Re­gion Three un­der the gov­ern­ment’s Coastal Wa­ter Treat­ment In­fra­struc­ture Pro­gramme (CWTIP).

It was con­struct­ed by Hipro Eco­logi­cos, with lo­cal part­ners S Jag­mo­han Con­struc­tion and is de­signed to treat eight mil­lion litres of wa­ter per day (MLD) sup­port­ed by three wells.