Accra water crisis grow worst

Theghanaianjournal.com can report that the water shortage that has hit some parts of Accra is about to become worst.

Reports monitored on Joy FM, an Accra based radio station, Tuesday afternoon indicated that Accra is about to be hit with a major water crisis.

What has raised fresh fears that the crisis will take a sharp turn for the worst, theghanaianjournal gathered is that officials at the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has dropped hint that it will be undertaking major works on some of its plants and water equipment in Accra.

This, according to sources, will eat into several days thereby deepening the woes of residents.

For sometime now areas such as Nii Boye Town, Darkuman, Nyamekye, Odorkor, Transformer, Abeka Lapaz, Six-Six, Mallam etc., all suburbs of Accra, have been experiencing water shortage.

The situation, theghanaianjornal.com observed, compels residents in these said areas to travel long distances in search of water.

Speaking in an interview, Master Ebo Mensah, a resident of Darkuman Nyamekye, disclosed to theghanaianjournal.com that the situation is terrible especially in the morning as few areas with water experience skirmishes among residents looking for water.”

Other Accra residents complained bitterly about the current water situation in their vicinities.

Many of them could not fathom why GWCL has not been able to address the problem, and why the company has also not come out publicly to inform them what really the problem is.

“Indeed those of us who reside at Darkuman Nyamekye and its environs cannot understand what the problem, and we are at a loss regarding why Ghana Water Company Limited has as at now not come out with any explanation.

…It sums up the fact they [GWCL] do not care about the consuming Ghanaian public. All they know is to wait for the month to end and you will see them pacing around in people’s houses- especially those with pipes in their houses- distributing water bills, and where you default in payment you are disconnected,” Mr. Richard Ackon, a landowner at Darkuman intimated.