Inchaban (W/R), March 22, GNA – Despite the
reasonably sufficient water resources, access to good
drinking water is gradually eluding Ghanaians, Mr Daniel
Muomaala, Western Regional Director of the Aqua-Vitens
Rand Limited, operators of Ghana Water Company, has
stated. He said the resource was increasingly becoming scarce
and of inferior quality largely due to human activities on
water bodies which seriously undermined production as
well as quality. Mr Muomaala who was speaking at the regional
celebration of the World Water Day under the theme:
“Water for Cities – Responding to Urban Challenges,”
mentioned that water pollution was mainly caused by
domestic and industrial waste as well as mining run-offs. He added that one of the biggest challenges of water
pollution in recent times is small-scale mining and called for
a stronger political will to hunt the situation down. He added that such uncontrolled activities along and
within water bodies limited the ability of the appropriate
organisation to harness those water bodies for the use of
urban centres. Mr Joseph Jonah of the Community Water and
Sanitation Agency, noted that water as a finite substance
needed to be well managed in order to avert the shortages
that most parts of the country had had to grapple with. “We seriously need to conserve water, because the
population is ever growing and water bodies also
depleting,” he added. Mr Leon Acquaye, Western Regional Manager of the
Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, called for
innovative strategies and monitoring mechanisms to ensure
that people got adequate water supply.
Source: GhanaWeb
