News:
July 29, 2021
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is expected to carry out planned pipeline improvement works in some selected communities In the Adentan Municipality to ensure increased access to water and improve supply in the Adentan Constituency.
The selected areas include implementation in Amrahia, Ashiyie, Amanfrom, Otano, Dzen Ayor, and Ogbojo under the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water Project (Additional Financing).
The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah however, noted that in the interim, the GWCL is currently undertaking mains extension works in Adenta Comandos and Amrahia areas. “These interventions will continue in a progressive manner, using internally generated funds to extend water supply to areas in the Municipality which are currently not being served.”
She urged residents who want to connect to the GWCL pipe mains to apply to their respective GWCL district offices to enable the GWCL to conduct an inspection to determine the feasibility of the application. “If the application is upheld on the basis of operational protocols, an estimate of the new service connection works will be [19] submitted to the applicant. Upon payment of the new service connection fees, the applicant will be connected.”
The Minister who was answering a question from the Member of Parliament for the Adentan Constituency, Mohammed Adamu Ramadan on what the Ministry is doing to ensure that Ghana Water Company extends its services to most residents in the Adentan Constituency also promised to institute an investigation into the practice where residents are asked to contribute for the extension of GWCL pipe mains to their communities and are later billed for extension into their individual home.
The MP brought this to the attention of the Minister and appealed that the practice should be checked since it is the duty of the GWCL to provide GWCL pipe mains to communities.
Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.com