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Earlier in the news, we showed you the groundbreaking for Guinea Grass' new road. Well, they're not the only ones in the north with something to celebrate. San Jose and San Pablo in the Orange Walk District, as well as Libertad, Concepcion, San Victor, and Buena Vista in the Corozal District today received water meters for their villages. The CEO in the Ministry of Rural Transformation explained more.

Valentino Shal, CEO, Ministry of Rural Transformation
"Water is extremely important for our rural families and rural households and we need to ensure that they have access to good clean quality water year round, day in and day out. And what we need to do to ensure that is to have these systems become financially sustainable so that they can continuously provide this service and one way to do that is to install meters on these systems and we're working with our waterboards throughout the country to be able to do this and so far we have increase the systems that are fully metered and today we are donating to I think four villages, some have shared systems here in the north, another I think 380 meters, that's valued at just above $190,000."

"It's a big task, I think we have 108 or 109 water systems and it's just 60% are fully metered, some are partially metered and some do not have meters so there's a long way to go. But there has been, since we started three years ago, every year we bring an amount and we install them along with the water boards so we have increased the number and the percentage of systems that are metered and we will continue until we have the entire rural water systems fully metered. And it's totally doable, of course we wish to have all the funds at one time because other villages are seeing the benefits, they're coming to us and saying what about us, we want to install meters on our systems too. But we work first with those villages who are ready, the ones who come and say we want to meter our systems. And there are those who are a little reluctant but we will work with them and we will get them on board as well."