The Danish Development Agency (DANIDA) is to fund the construction of a surface water pipe system from Aveyime in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region to deprived communities in the Dangme East and West Districts of the Greater Accra Region at a cost of 16 billion cedis.
The project is to replace the borehole project DANIDA was undertaking in the area and was found out to be meeting some technical problems and that the water from the boreholes was also too salty. The project would also cover a large area, including some of the villages between Aveyime, Sege to West Ada who experience acute water problems.
DANIDA, which was funding the drilling of the boreholes, recommended that the districts should find an alternative source of water supply so that it could assist them with funding.
Mr Simon Edem Asimah, Greater Accra Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) disclosed this on Tuesday to the GNA at a workshop the CWSA organised in Accra for District Chief Executives, District Co-ordinators, Chiefs, opinion leaders in the North Tongu, Dangme East and West districts DANIDA Technical advisors and people from the private sector.
It was to educate the stakeholders the role they have to play in the execution of the project and how they were to manage it. Mr Asimah said the CWSA would help the people come out with strategies on how to make portable water available to a large number of the people in the area to end the perennial water problem they were facing.
He noted that the inputs from the participants at the workshop could provide a better way of managing the water systems to enable them to derive maximum benefit from the project. Making his presentation, Mr. Kolly Dorcoo a consultant to the CWSA said the CWSA was only facilitating the project. He said "the project is the biggest one source of multi-districts and the wide pipe network in the country in terms of communities."
He noted that there were a lot of industries such as salt winning and cattle rearing in the area. Mr. Dorcoo said the private sector could team up with some of the management boards in some of the communities to ensure that the system was managed well and efficiently.
