{"id":19796,"date":"2024-05-22T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=19796"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:18:27","slug":"improved-water-access-for-kamwatta-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/improved-water-access-for-kamwatta-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Water Access for Kamwatta Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>By Fabiana Mcklmon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 900 residents of Kamwatta in Region One now have improved access to potable water following the commissioning of a new 25-million-dollar water supply system by Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new water distribution system includes a newly drilled well, costing 15 million dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An additional 7 million dollars was spent on the installation and distribution network, the photovoltaic pumping system, and the construction of the well fence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal stated that further efforts will be made to supply water to about ten percent of the villagers who currently live some distance from the system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government plans to install more pipes to extend the water supply to these households, with assistance from the village council for pipe installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal assured residents that the government is committed to ensuring complete access to potable water across the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that by the end of the year, at least 90% of the region should have access to potable water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the minister assured the community that other infrastructural developments are planned for the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fabiana Mcklmon Approximately 900 residents of Kamwatta in Region One now have improved access to potable water following the commissioning of a new 25-million-dollar water supply system by Housing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796","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=19796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19798,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions\/19798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}