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Accra Needs 150m Gallons of Water |
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Aqua Vitend Rand Limited, acting on behalf of Ghana Water Company Limited, has estimated the water supply deficit in the Accra-Tema Metropolitan Area to be around 70 million gallons per day. |
Average water supply in the area is about 82 million gallons per day from Weija and Kpong Treatment Plants. Demand is over 150 million gallons per day, which leaves a deficit of 70 million gallons per day even in the best of times, the company stated.
The water company further explained that during the dry season, the situation worsens due to the absence of rain-water as an alternative; demand for treated water therefore peaks and puts extra pressure on an already poor situation.
AVRL took the opportunity to apologize to all its customers for the inconveniences they have experienced during the acute water shortage that hit Accra and Tema, giving the assuring that it is developing a short-term measure to provide a mobile water delivery service to specific, hard-hit neighbourhoods.
AVRL however emphasized that its mandate does not include plant expansion.
“The company is restricted primarily to efficiently operating the existing infrastructure for urban water service, maintenance of water quality, billing and collection,” it added in a statement issued in Accra and signed by the managing director, Andrew Barber. |
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