Sekondi/Takoradi hit by water shortage

GNA – The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis is
experiencing water rationing as a result of the drying up of River Pra and
River Anakwa that supplied water to the treatment plants at Daboase and
Inchaban.
Mr. Mark Teiko Cudjoe, Production Manager of the Ghana Water Company
Limited in charge of Western Region, said the water level of the rivers had
gone down affecting extraction, treatment and distribution of water.
The Production Manager, who took journalists round the treatment plants
to ascertain the situation, said that the Daboase head works which produces
6 million gallons of water, could only supply 4 million gallons daily while
the Anankwa River at Inchaban produced 5,000 gallons instead of 4 million
gallons daily.
Mr Cudjoe said that activities of illegal miners “galamsey” operators,
particularly around the River Pra was affecting cost of water production and
treatment and that “We have already carried out four desilting this year”.
GNA