Eccles Water Treatment plant being upgraded

**GWI’s Chief Executive Officer Shaik Baksh gestures to a technician at the Eccles Water Treatment Plant (GWI)**

…residents to benefit from improved water supply, quality

Residents of Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and surrounding communities will soon benefit from improved water supply as the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is in the process of upgrading the water treatment plant in the community.

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Upon completion, it is estimated that some 2500 households will benefit. GWI in a statement Thursday said that the water treatment plant serves residents of Eccles, Bagotstown, Republic Park, Nany Park, Republic Gardens and Windsor Estate.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the water company Shaik Baksh and a technical team visited the facility on Thursday to assess the improvements to the aged filtration system which was out of operation for the past three years.

The filters are being modified to facilitate the introduction of manganese dioxide filter media which has a better efficiency in iron removal and an improved hydraulic filtration rate than the silica sand media from a traditional treatment process.
GWI said that the re-engineering of the existing treatment process is being executed by GWI’s in-house technical team.