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| DCE, East Gonja/MP Gonja North |
More than 25 agrarian communities including Danshelli,
Takpilla, Kpinchilla, Fuu among others in the East Gonja District of the
Northern Region of Ghana lack potable water and largely depend on polluted dam
water as their only means of survival.
The
situation is even acute during the dry season, as most residents had to travel long
distances [2miles] in search of water for domestic use. A visit to some of the
affected communities in the district revealed that residents shared their only
source of drinking water, which is the dam, with domestic animals that pollute
them with their excreta and urine.
Checks by
Savannahnews at the District Assembly revealed that several attempts
to drill boreholes for the affected communities to get water yielded no results,
because most of the communities had low water table.
Some
residents who spoke to this reporter noted that they had to travel long
distances to community dams to draw water and each time they drink the water,
they suffer from stomach pains.
The Assemblyman
for one of the affected communities, Fuu Electoral Area, Iddrisu Saani appealed
to other benevolent individuals and organizations to help the communities in
the district to have access to clean water.
The outgoing
Chief Executive for the East Gonja District and Member of Parliament for the
Gonja North Constituency Alhassan Mumuni, confirmed the problem confronting the
communities but noted that, efforts would be made to treat the water in the
various dams for people to use.
Mr.
Mumuni stressed that he would be liaising with the Ghana Water Company Limited and
other stakeholders in the water sector for a lasting solution to the problem.
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