Cresta Paints gives Korle New Town potable water

A paint manufacturing company, CRESTA Paints Group, has sponsored the installation of a solar-powered mechanised borehole facility at Korle New Town near Nyerede Electoral Area close to Koforidua in the New Juaben Municipality in the Eastern Region.

The project, which cost GH¢80,000, will provide 5,000 litres of safe water daily to the Korle New Town community of about 1,000 inhabitants. The project was built by MAJI Foundation, a non-governmental non- profit making organisation which specialises in the drilling of boreholes.

Social responsibility

At a ceremony to hand over the facility to the community, a Director of Cresta Group of Companies, Mr Emmanuel A. Dagadu, said the facility was part of Cresta Group’s corporate social responsibility to eliminate water-borne diseases from Korle New Town and other areas in the municipality.

Mr Dagadu, who stood in for the Managing Director of West Africa, Cresta Group, Mr Arun Patil, said everybody was aware of the challenges that any community without water faced, and therefore charged stakeholders in the community to ensure that proper maintenance culture was observed for the facility to serve the area for many years, adding that the better care you take of it, the longer it will last.

The Eastern Regional Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Ing. Henry Anipah Johnson, lauded Cresta Paints for supplying the community which hitherto was without water with the borehole.

Maintenance

“Safe drinking water is very necessary in every community and therefore Korle New Town can be counted as very lucky with the supply of the water in the community.

What is now necessary is to maintain it well for it to last longer,” the regional director stressed.

He was of the view that the community should put in measures to sell the water at very low price per bucket so as to generate income for the maintenance of the facility anytime it broke down.

He said the facility was built to last for more than 20 years or more if proper care was taken of it, explaining that when proper maintenance culture was adopted it was going to take away the burden off the central government.

He gave an assurance that by 2030, as indicated by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), most communities in the country, if not all, were going to get potable water.

MCE

The New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Isaac Apaw Gyasi, commended the Assembly Member for Nyerede North Electoral Area, Mr Opoku Gyamfi, for his initiative and hard work which led to the provision of the facility in the community. He explained that the supply of the facility to the community was in fulfilment of

President Akufo-Addo’s assurance of providing basic needs to every community in the country.

Mr Apaw-Gyasi assured communities such as Agavenya, Korle Old Town, Trom, among others, in the municipality without potable water that in the very near future water would be supplied to ease the water situation in the area, adding that “water is life and whoever gives you water gives you life.”

The MCE sensitised the community to the need to vote for the unit committee and assembly members and participate in the referendum for the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives come December 17, 2019.

He was of the view that the best decision would be to elect the MMDCEs no matter the party that was in power, and urged the people who were present to ensure that they educated their relatives to appreciate the importance of the forthcoming national exercises.