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Sanitation and Water Resources Minister
June 22, 2023
The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources Cecilia Abena Dapaah has told Parliament there is ongoing negotiation between Ghana Water Limited (GWL) and contractors for portable water to be supplied to larger communities in the Krachi East Municipality.
According to her as soon as statutory funds are approved and funds secured the project would commence for its implementation.
She further told the House the capital Dambai water supply system is currently dependent on ground water including the Oti River, Volta Lake seasonal streams as well as hand-dug wells.
Whiles there are about twenty-five (25) private and public mechanised water wells in the municipality with only ten (10) currently in operation, when the Member of Parliament for Krachi East Wisdom Gidisu want to know plans by the Ministry to install automated system to process water from the Oti River to supply larger communities in the Municipality.
Madam Dapaah in answering questions on the floor of the House on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 said the Ministry through GWL has engaged Messrs Pureco/Inzaag GmbH JV to develop the Dambai water supply project and being developed to meet the demand up to 2045 for Dambai and its environs.
The scope of the project includes the following:
• Floating raw water intake facilities on the Oti River
• Raw water transmission pipeline between the intake facility and the water treatment plant with a length of approximately 3km.
• All 11,5oom 3/day (2.53MGD) conventional water treatment
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com