The Regional Communications Manager for the Western & Central Regions of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Nana Yaw Barima Barnie has blamed incessant water challenges within the Cape Coast metropolis on lack of proper coordination between their outfit and the Department of Urban Roads.
The intermittent breakages in water supply and discoloration of water has been tabled to the GWCL as problems largely being experienced by residents in some selected areas within the Cape Coast metropolis.
Addressing these issues on the Atlantic Wave, Mr. Barnie explained that the situation can only be solved if there is proper coordination between the two outfits.
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“Water may not be flowing to a community because a contractor working on a road and must have destroyed the pipelines. The preferred practice is that the contractor working on the road must try as much as possible to relocate the lines even before the road works starts. Unfortunately, these does not happen in most cases.”
He said several times the road contractors have refused to pay for the cost of relocating the pipelines to the appropriate communities even after their works have dismantled the lines a situation Mr Barnie noted is worrying.
He was optimistic that if contractors will bear the responsibility of paying for the relocation of pipelines before beginning their road works, most of the incessant water breakages to homes will be avoided.
Source: Aba Aikins Appah/ATLFMNEWS
