Water storage facility to be completed at Moblissa

– as Minister Rodrigues fulfils promise to residents

Minister within Ministry of Housing and Water, Hon. Susan Rodrigues, today, said steps would be taken to complete the water storage facility at Moblissa, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, providing access to potable water for approximately 250 residents.

This initiative is in keeping with a promise the Minister made to residents during a recent Presidential outreach in the Region.

During her engagement there, residents had complained to the Minister that the previous administration had promised to address their water woes, but works had been stalled after a trestle had been erected.

Minister Rodrigues had committed to engaging the Guyana Water Incorporated on the way forward to remedy the situation.

“Residents in Moblissa complained over an incomplete storage facility (trestle) which was constructed about three years ago and was not in use which I inspected for clarification.

So, we are going to now complete that storage facility, equipping it with black tanks so that the water can be stored and residents can go to that central location to access potable water,” she said in an interview with DPI today.

A view of the abandoned trestle in Moblissa

Later this year, the Ministry also plans to drill a new well to increase water productivity in the area. The current well does not have a high enough capacity to meet residents’ needs.

A new well, Minister Rodrigues said, would allow the community’s school and health centre to access water.

The Ministry is also exploring several options to provide water for farmers, many of whom complained that their efforts are frustrated due to the lack of an irrigation system.

“This is also an agriculture-based community and for that, they don’t need potable water but we need to give them access to creek water. So, we’re going to have an intervention on that level to ensure these persons can farm and earn their livelihood without any problem,” Minister Rodrigues said.

Currently, the community’s creek is its main source of water. Residents also harvest rainwater.

Meanwhile, the Ministry is still identifying ways to serve Bamia residents.