More schools in Region Six are being equipped with water purification systems under Project FLOW, a programme that aims to provide purified drinking water to more than 58,000 students across Guyana by 2029.
The Region Six expansion was commissioned on Friday at New Amsterdam Secondary School, with purification systems now installed at 17 secondary schools and two TVET institutions.
The installations are expected to benefit 8,438 students and 1,164 teachers in the region.
Project FLOW was launched last year and began its rollout in Region Three in May 2026, where 15 water purification systems were installed at schools serving about 9,000 students.
The wider programme targets 141 public secondary schools, 10 TVET centres and four special education facilities by the end of 2029.
The project is being implemented through a partnership between the Greater Guyana Initiative, Recover Guyana and the Ministry of Education.
At Friday's commissioning, Education Minister Sonia Parag urged students to take responsibility for the facilities, while highlighting the use of technology and infrastructure to support sustainability.
The project also has a waste-reduction component.
Monitoring systems installed at participating schools will track the number of plastic bottles saved each day, with the programme estimating that about 25 million plastic bottles could be eliminated by the end of 2029.
ExxonMobil Guyana, through the Greater Guyana Initiative, is among the companies funding the programme. The initiative forms part of a US$100 million development commitment involving ExxonMobil Guyana, Hess and CNOOC for social and economic projects across Guyana.
ExxonMobil Guyana President Alistair Routledge said the company's focus on the project is tied to Guyana's young population.
“More important than the natural resources, the most important resource in a country are the young people and that is what this project is about,” Routledge said.
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