Water shortage: Harvesting rainwater is the way to go – Nana Dwomoh Sarpong

The President of Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, Nana Kwabena Dwomoh Sarpong, has urged households to consider harvesting rainwater for better use in the future.

For him, this is a race against season and nature, and hence preventing rainwater from going to waste is a direct response to climate change.

“Rainwater harvesting is an age-old technique and Ghanaians must be encouraged to store rainwater to help curb the excesses in the dry season. It’s obvious those managing water have failed woefully and we must find alternative ways to arrest the problem of water shortage,” he told Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.5 FM.

His comment comes in the wake of the perennial water shortage which has compelled the Ghana Water Company Limited to undertake water rationing programme started two weeks ago. Already, most parts of the country have started experiencing the water rationing.

The company has asked the public to manage the minimal water in the system efficiently.

Meanwhile, the 3 regions up-north have been badly hit by the water shortage.

Head of Communication at GWCL, Stanley Martey, has told Kasapa 102.5 FM, the severity of the dry season coupled with human activities, have caused water sources to dwindle very fast.

Parliament’s works and housing committee says more answers are required from the Ghana Water Company management over the situation and has invited GWCL’s management to give further details on the development.