Ghana Water Company (GWCL) has said that one of the causes of the current water rationing in the Greater Accra region is the spillage of the Akosombo Dam.
Parts of Accra have been experiencing water rationing for some time now. The areas affected include Nima, La, Kotobabi, Awudome, Kasoa, and Kwabenya among others.
Communications Manager for GWCL, Stanley Mantey who disclosed this, indicated that “As for water, everybody knows that we are doing demand management and equitable distribution of the little water we have. For a while now we have been talking about the fact that supply cannot meet the demand in Accra. So the only thing we can do is demand management so that everybody can get some water.
“After the spillage of the Akosombo dam, we had serious challenges with the Kpong Treatment Plant because the spillage washed a lot of debris, aquatic weeds, and all manner of things into our injection areas. Because of the force the pumps used in abstracting the water, it attracted all these materials into it thereby almost blocking the entire situation,” Mr. Mantey said on Starr FM.
He added that the Weija Operation also had some challenges “so we have to shut down one pump at Weija so that we could work on it. So Weija is also currently not producing at full capacity. We are working seriously at it so that we can also stabilize the system.”
Mr. Mantey, however, assured that engineers are actively working to address the challenge to bring respite to affected areas.