ACUTE Water Starvation Hits Parts Of East Gonja

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.