Urban water supply to increase by 18 per cent
Accra, Feb. 17, 2012
Government says it is expecting an increase in the coverage of urban water supply from the present sixty-two per cent to eighty per cent by 2015.
This was contained in the President’s State of the Nation Address which was presented to Parliament yesterday.
According to President John Evans Atta Mills, government has taken many interventions as pledged in its manifesto to focus the production, distribution and supply of water taking into account the needs of the poor.
He said, “Since 2009, we have constructed hundreds of boreholes fitted with hand pumps, hand dug wells with hand pumps and piped water systems throughout the country.”
“I have directed that at least 20,000 boreholes be constructed nationwide over the next four years.”
According to President Mills, government has absorbed the 5% contribution by communities to the capital cost of construction of rural water systems in rural communities.
The Kpong Water Expansion Project is expected to add 40million gallons of water daily to the Accra-Tema Metropolis.
Jasmine Arku, e.tv Ghana news
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