Mining company to help Topremang get potable water

Topremang, July 6, GNA - The Chief of Topremang, Barima Adomako Nyarko, on Wednesday said a mining company in the area has agreed to help bring potable water to the community.

The company, CAYCO Ghana Limited, had agreed to commit GH¢15,000 towards the mechanisation of two existing boreholes, transmission of water to a high level storage tank and final distribution through public standpipes and households.

Barima Nyarko told the Kwaebibirem District Chief Executive, Mr Reginald Aboagye Osae, who visited the township as part of his familiarisation tour of the district that, the CAYCO's support though very appreciative was not enough to complete the project and appealed to the district assembly to help facilitate the completion of the project.

The Topremanhene said for over fifty years, the Consolidated African Selection Trust and its successor the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds, tapped its water from Mmore/Amaw River at Topremang for supply to the company's facilities and Akwatia Township as well as Topremang itself.

He said that had however ceased and due to illegal mining and pollution of the river and the use of chemicals for gold mining at Akanteng, the source of drinking water was heavily polluted.

That was why the district assembly needed to urgently go to the assistance of the people for the early completion of the new water system, he said.

Barima Nyarko told the DCE that at the moment there was only one KVIP public place of convenience serving about 4,000 people in the town and pleaded that the assembly should consider building an additional one for the community.

Mr Osae promised the assembly's assistance and said an additional KVIP would be built by the end of the year.

He warned parents against using their wards in child labour at the expense of their education.