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Filthy stinky tap water discovered in more areas
Accra, Sept. 12, Ghanadot/GNA - Following media reports of
dirty stinky water flowing from taps in some communities at
La, a top official at Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL) of the
Ghana Water Company, on Friday said they have found similar
problems in more communities in Accra.
Mr Stanley Martey, Communications Director of AVRL said
investigations by a team of laboratory leakage and
maintenance staffs have detected similar problems around the
La General Hospital, Osu and further toward Accra central.
"But I can tell you for a fact that the problem is not from
our treatment plant. We suspect a broken line on the service
line that serves those communities but we have not
identified it yet," he said.
Mr Martey said from the direction the problem was moving,
they suspected that the bad water could be coming from the
Korle Lagoon at Korlegono but added "but we cannot move
straight to that area. We need to trace the root of the bad
water to ascertain the enormity of the problem".
He assured the public that the AVRL was leaving no stone
unturned and would comb every community within 100 meters
interval, adding that as they moved on towards Accra
Central, the characteristics of the filthy water samples
they took changed.
"What we have found is that in the afternoon as people fetch
more water the clean water flashes out the dirty water, but
in the evenings and early mornings the bad water settles and
run through the taps," he said.
Mr Martey, therefore, called on residents of communities
where samples of the bad water had been taken not to fetch
water from their taps else their water meters would read and
they would be billed at the end of the month.
He said AVRL would increase their tanker trips to those
communities to ensure that they had potable water on regular
basis.
It would be recalled that the GNA reported that for the past
week, taps in some house on the Abentia Block at La in
Accra, had been delivering unwholesome water that stinks and
has colour.
Residents told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that what was
supposed to be treated water running through their taps
exuded stench similar to a choked gutter scent.
Mrs Sandra Ollenu, a resident, told the GNA she and her
neighbours first noticed the abnormality with the water
quality a week ago.
"Even though water has been flowing regularly, it is
unusable because of the dirt and the stench," she said,
adding that, the neighbourhood had since been buying water
from private suppliers at high cost.
Mrs. Ollenu and others also expressed fears of the
likelihood of the utility company continuing to bill them,
even though they had stopped using the water because they
found it unsafe.
Officials from the Ghana Water Company have confirmed that
the water was unwholesome after they took samples from the
neighbourhood, based on a report lodged to it by the GNA.
However, the company is yet to determine the source of the
problem.
Mr. Kweku Botwe, Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana
Water Company, told the GNA that a technical team would be
deployed to the area to find out the exact problem and take
the necessary measures to resolve it.
GNA
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