Nsawam water treatment plant resumes production
The Nsawam water treatment plant has resumed water production following the construction of a borehole to service the plant.
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The plant is currently producing 500,000 gallons of water a day to distribute to residents of the Nsawam-Adoagyiri municipality.
A second borehole is in the process of being connected to the plant and is expected to improve the current production on completion.
The two boreholes will serve as interim sources of water for the treatment plant until the water level in the Densu River, which has been the main source of water for the plant, goes up.
The treatment plant was producing about 800,000 gallons a day and was expected to increase to 2.5 million gallons a day following the completion of a new 1.7 million-gallon capacity treatment plant in Nsawam but the drying up of the River Densu halted the flow of water.
Minister’s tour
This came to light when the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr Kweku Agyeman-Mensah, led a team from the ministry, the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly and the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) 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.
Also in attendance was the new Eastern Regional Minister, Mrs Mavis Frimpong.
Dr Agyeman-Mensah 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 normalised.
For his part, the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Ben Ohene Ayeh, expressed profound gratitude to the government and all stakeholders for the prompt intervention.
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 gave the ministry and its stakeholders over the period.
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 Densu River for domestic use.
The situation has been attributed to the lack of water at the treatment plant to serve the communities.
The drying up of the Densu River, the main source of water for the Nsawam water plant, has been attributed to the severity of the recent harmattan, climate change, as well as human activities along the banks of the river.