Ho enters New Year with no water

Residents in the Volta Regional capital of Ho have since New Year’s Day been trooping to old well sites and abandoned boreholes, desperately in search of water.

This follows a fault in one of the pumps at the Kpeve Water Headworks on the eve of the new year, affecting water supply to the regional capital.

The situation has also affected water supply to other areas, including Peki, Have, Bame, Akrofu, Ziavi, and Klefe. 

On Thursday (January 2), the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in a statement assured that the emergency response team was working tirelessly to repair the fault and restore water supply as soon as possible.

However, the problem seems to be far from over.

The GWCL has since been tight-lipped over the matter, leaving the public in a state of uncertainty.

As of Saturday morning (January 4), some of the wells from which the people drew water, had dried up, compounding the problem.

The company’s engineers from Tema and Kpong are said to have joined their colleagues in the Volta Region to help to fix the problem.

The situation has also affected the operations of chop bars and other businesses, as the town has virtually dried.

Some residents near Sokode-Lokoe, including men, women and children, as of Saturday morning, were running to the premises of a bagged water company to fetch the waste water running through the drain.

Others travelled to nearby villages with jerry cans, in hired vehicles, to scoop water from muddy and drying streams.

Several attempts by Graphic Online to contact he authorities of GWCL in the past few days have turned fruitless.

The major health facilities in the regional capital are now relying on their reservoirs for water.

Meanwhile, public outcry over the situation is soaring.