{"id":4923,"date":"2010-12-07T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2010-12-07T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T13:52:45","slug":"water-infrastructure-upgrades-required-for-baha-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/12\/water-infrastructure-upgrades-required-for-baha-mar","title":{"rendered":"Water Infrastructure Upgrades Required For Baha Mar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than $30 million will be spent by the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) to upgrade its infrastructure in preparation for the $2.6 billion Baha Mar project said Minister of State for the Environment Phenton Neymour.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said the government would need to borrow $50 million to complete infrastructure upgrades at Cable Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The WSC upgrades will include numerous main renewals, upgrades to either the Blue Hill Road or Windsor Road plant facilities and the construction of a reverse osmosis plant at Arawak Cay.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately four million gallons of water will need to be produced daily by the reverse osmosis facility, according to Neymour.<\/p>\n<p>A new sewerage treatment facility is also being planned at Gladstone Road for Baha Mar.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) is also conducting preliminary work in preparation for the Cable Beach development, including the relocation of a leisure station, the installation of additional street lighting and the installation of additional electrical lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than $30 million will be spent by the Water and Sewerage Corporation to upgrade its infrastructure in preparation for the $2.6 billion Baha Mar project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[27,24,40],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-baha-mar","tag-construction","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}