Belize Water Services Limited (BWS) is the national water and sewerage utility that was vested with the Assets and Liabilities of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) in March 2001. Belize Water Services Limited operates in licensed service areas, serving all the municipalities of the country as well as some 45 villages. As at March 2023, BWS serves over 65,000 connections or approximately 294,
000 consumers, with a total average water demand of approximately 240 million US gallons per month. Over 60% of the water supplied is produced using conventional water treatment processes with rivers as the extraction sources. Satellite water wells are used for the majority of the other water systems; however, on the islands of Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker, BWS distributes water which has been treated by Reverse Osmosis, an engineered process for converting sea water to drinking water. The Company’s head office is in Belize City, and it administrates operations via eleven (11) offices across the country.
