{"id":13573,"date":"2023-10-27T23:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T23:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13573"},"modified":"2023-10-27T23:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T23:58:38","slug":"gwi-makes-significant-investments-to-address-growing-housing-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/gwi-makes-significant-investments-to-address-growing-housing-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"GWI Makes Significant Investments to Address Growing Housing Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Chairman of the Board of GWI, Ramesh Dookhoo, announced substantial investments in response to the expanding housing sector and population shift towards urban areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Conference, Dookhoo detailed an ambitious 200 million US dollar coastal water treatment program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim is to elevate clean water accessibility for a significant portion of the coastal population, increasing coverage from 52% to 90% between 2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dookhoo emphasized that these investments will lead to enhanced water quality and service levels for approximately 206,000 individuals or 65,000 households, constituting 34% of Guyana&#8217;s coastal population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This target is set to be achieved through the construction of 13 new treatment plants across regions 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simultaneously, GWI is dedicated to improving access in hinterland regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2019 to the end of 2022, access in these areas surged from 33.8% to 75%, benefitting over 30,000 households with first-time access to potable water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, Dookhoo revealed plans to drill over 50 new wells in the hinterland and install photovoltaic systems, with the goal of achieving a 100% increase in access to potable water by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Board of GWI, Ramesh Dookhoo, announced substantial investments in response to the expanding housing sector and population shift towards urban areas. Speaking at the Caribbean Water and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13575,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573\/revisions\/13575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}