Boreholes to help contain water shortage at Nsawam
Two boreholes under construction at Nsawam are to be connected to the Nsawam Water Treatment Plant to distribute water to residents of the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality.
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One of the boreholes has already been drilled while the second is expected to be completed soon.
The Deputy Minister in charge of Water at the Ministry of Water Resources Works and Housing, Mr Samuel Yaw Adusei, said the two boreholes would be connected to the treatment plant by the close of this week to serve as the interim source of water for the plant until the level in the Densu River improves.
The deputy minister said this last Saturday when he led a team from the ministry and the Ghana Water Company Limited on an inspection tour of the Nsawam treatment plant to ascertain the progress of work on the dredging of the Densu River, as well as work on the boreholes.
Geological survey
He said the hydro geological survey which was done to identify the two borehole points was contiuning to identify more sources of underground water for the drilling of more boreholes to provide more fresh water to the plant for production.
He said the water tanker services deployed to the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality to mitigate the acute water shortage in the area would continue until water supply from the treatment plant resumed.
“These are all short-term measures to mitigate the impact of the water shortage while we implement long-term measures to avoid similar situations from occurring in the future,” he said.
Mr Adusei said as part of the long-term measures, a 500-million-gallon fresh water reservoir would be built to ensure the availability of fresh water at all times to keep the treatment plant functioning in the event of a similar occurrence.
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He said water would also be directed from the Weija Dam to the Nsawam treatment plant as part of the long-term measures.
Call on chief
The team called on Nana Afutu Dompreh II, the chief of Adoagyiri and Ankobeahene of the Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area, to express gratitude to him and his elders for the support they had given to the ministry and its stakeholders over the period.
Nana Afutu Dompreh commended the government for the quick response to the acute water shortage in the area and called for measures to be put in place to protect the dam from being made a dump site.
Background
An acute water shortage has hit the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality and its surrounding communities, forcing some of the residents to fetch water from the banks of the Densu River for domestic use.
The situation has been attributed to the lack of water at the treatment plant to serve the communities.
The desiccation of the River Densu, the main source of water for the Nsawam water plant, has been attributed to the severity of the recent harmattan weather, climate change as well as human activities along the banks of the river.