The situation has crippled businesses that use water daily. The management of the water company in a statement said the affected areas in the eastern part of the capital include Afienya, Apallonia, Gbetsele, Ashaiman, Katamanso, Kakasunanka, Adjei Kojo, East Legon Trasaco, All the communities in Tema (Community 1 to 25), Free Zones enclave. Other environs include Tema Industrial Area, Dawhenya, Prampram, Spintex Road, Batsonaa, Coca Cola, Kasapreko, Manet, Lashibi, Klagon, Sakumono, and surrounding communities. The shortage, GWCL said is expected to last for five days to enable engineers to replace two hundred meters of a weak session of the main 42-inch transmission pipeline from Kpong to Tema, around Gbetsele junction.
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BY: GNA
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The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) on Tuesday started pumping water from the Kpong Treatment Plant through its 42 inches’ diameter pipelines after completion of repair works.
GWCL therefore assured residents of Tema and its environs who had lived without water flowing through their taps during the replacement of 120 metres of its aged steel pipe from Thursday April 22, to Sunday April 25, 2021 that the situation would return to normalcy.
Two days after the completion of the repair works, residents in the affected areas were yet to get water; leading them to source for water from tankers while some benevolent churches and assembly men also provided water to them.
Areas to be affected The management of the water company in a statement said the affected areas in the eastern part of the capital include Afienya, Apallonia, Gbetsele, Ashaiman, Katamanso, Kakasunanka, Adjei Kojo, East Legon Trasaco, All the communities in Tema (Community 1 to 25), Free Zones enclave. Other environs include Tema Industrial Area, Dawhenya, Prampram, Spintex Road, Batsonaa, Coca Cola, Kasapreko, Manet, Lashibi, Klagon, Sakumono, and surrounding communities. The shortage, GWCL said is expected to last for five days to enable engineers to replace two hundred meters of a weak session of the main 42-inch transmission pipeline from Kpong to Tema, around Gbetsele junction.
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BY: Benjamin Xornam Glover
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Some assembly members at Tema Manhean in the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) have bemoaned the inadequate supply of potable water in their communities.
Contributing to discussions at the first ordinary meeting of the First Session of the Eighth General Assembly Meeting of the TMA, some of the assembly members said for the past eight to nine months, they had not had regular flow of water through their taps.
They said urgent steps needed to be taken to regularly provide potable water for people in their communities.
The Assembly Member for Bankuman, Mr Alfred Borkor, lamented the unavailability of potable water in the northern part of his electoral area for the past eight months, saying he had to provide huge storage tanks and buy water from tankers to serve his community on a regular basis.
Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources on Friday directed District Assemblies not to give permits to people to build on water transmission pipelines.
Madam Dapaah said allowing people to encroach on the pipelines was a disaster in waiting as people could lose their lives should the underground pipes they had built own burst with water gushing out.
The Sanitation Minister gave the directive during an inspection of the ongoing repair works of the 42 inches diameter transmission pipelines at Gbetseley in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality.
It came out that some structures were erected on the pipelines which transmit water from Kpong to Tema, a situation that often delays maintenance work as some of them had to be demolished to give way.