Work on the Water and Sewerage Corporation’s (WSC) $81 million non-revenue water project is set to begin in January, according to a corporation executive.
WSC’s general manager, Glen Laville told Guardian Business that the corporation will have its hands full with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan that’s being implemented for the non-revenue water project
WSC hired Miya, an Israeli firm, to perform a revamp of New Providence’s ground water system. The company has already started hiring Bahamians to work on the project.
At the end of the five-year project, WSC should have four wastewater treatment plants and 60 pumping stations throughout New Providence. It’s an effort that is hoped to reduce the corporation’s water losses by 50 percent.
Laville updated Guardian Business on WSC’s plans to make the corporation more efficient after participating in a two-day High Level Session (HLS) Ministerial Forum on Water, under the theme ‘The Water and Energy Nexus in Caribbean development’. At that eighth annual session, Laville revealed that water was identified as a national issue and one that was crucial to national development.
