{"id":22330,"date":"2024-09-04T18:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22330"},"modified":"2024-09-04T18:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:03:35","slug":"efforts-to-expand-access-to-potable-water-in-hinterland-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/efforts-to-expand-access-to-potable-water-in-hinterland-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts to Expand Access to Potable Water in Hinterland Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In a recent engagement with Toshaos at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, provided an update on the government&#8217;s initiatives to enhance access to potable water in hinterland regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal announced that, over the past three years, 95 wells have been drilled, with an additional 64 wells expected to be completed by the end of this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of wells to be drilled to 139 by the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guyana Water Incorporated is advancing rapidly towards its goal of providing 100% access to potable water in the hinterland by 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal highlighted that the government has invested approximately 4.5 billion dollars in water infrastructure for these remote areas, covering first-time access, extensions, and expansions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These efforts are part of a broader strategy to reduce the disparity in access to essential services between hinterland and coastal communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent engagement with Toshaos at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, provided an update on the government&#8217;s initiatives to enhance access to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22330","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\/22330","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=22330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22331,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions\/22331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}