Chief Executive Officer of the Community Sanitation and Water Agency, Ing. Dr. Worlanyo Kwadjo Siabi has disclosed that the recent flooding through the Akomsombo and Kpong water spillage has directly impacted water installations in Yeji in the Bono East region, Osudoku in the Greater Accra region, and Adidome in the Volta Region.
According to him, this unfortunate event has led to a drastic reduction in the availability of water, leaving the residents of these areas facing acute water shortages.
He says the agency is currently assessing the situation and seeking solutions to restore water supply to the affected communities as swiftly as possible.
At a press briefing organized on the Agency’s behalf by the Ministry of Information, he echoed the agency’s commitment to sustaining rural and small town’s water services through its policy reforms.
He indicated that frequent breakdowns and extended downtime of water systems, often lasting more than a month is one of the major challenges facing the CWSA.
Ing. Dr. Siabi noted that, as part of the reforms by the agency, new technologies have been deployed to improve the operation of water systems.
“These are really high-resolution pumps that are automated. And so, we are moving from the manual wheel water delivery to what we call automation or digitization. We also on this project, have booster stations where, because of the length of the pipes, once the pressure reduces, we have to boost before we are able to serve other communities.”
He also noted that the agency is now resorting to a solar mix due to the cost of production and operation.
In addition, he said CSWA has created new offices for its staff.
“We also have a loan of 11.5 million that was approved by the government and completed a project we call five district water supply projects in the Volta Region, Adakulu, and Agotima” he added.
The Chief Executive Officer revealed that CSWA has taken reforms and measures to curb these challenges the CSWA faces.
This, he notes includes job creation for the youth.
“Out of the 1,924-water system created by the state and are in distress, we started in 2017 and we are in 189. CWSA has been able to employ technical staff to manage 189 out of the 1,924 and we have done this in 169 districts, in 16 regions. We have rehabilitated 170 out of the 189 and then we have employed a total of 1418.
According to Ing. Dr. Worlanyo Kwadjo Siabi a number of the new staff drawn from the then Polytechnics now Technical Universities have achieved remarkable job creation opportunities and are delivering the services for the CSWA.
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Source: Angelina Riley Hayford/ATLFMNEWS
