Residents of Adaklu Have in the Adaklu District have passionately appealed to the Ghana Water Limited (GWL), to urgently help restore water to the community.
The last time water flowed to the community was about four years ago.
Mr Simon Adama, an opinion leader and a spokesperson of the community made the appeal through the Ghana News Agency at Adaklu Have.
He stated that the stand pipes in the community had become white elephants.
Mr Adama intimated that the community, with a population of over 1500, had to rely on a borehole provided by Compassion International Ghana for the Global Evangelical Church Child Development Centre.
He noted that the borehole was also not functioning well “so we are now relying on a dam which is about four kilometres from the community for survival.”
Mr Adama noted that the situation was not only affecting economic activities of the people but also the academics of pupils in the community.
“We are daily wasting productive hours looking for water,” he lamented.
He stated that the situation could also lead to an outbreak of diseases, as they were using water from the dam as drinking water.
Mr Adama said they had visited the GWC offices on several occasions for them to remedy the situation but all their appeals and pleas had fallen deaf ears.
He continued that their appeals to the Adaklu District Assembly, to take up the matter for them had also not yield the desired result.
Mr Adama pleaded with Mr Jerry Yao Ameko, the Adaklu District Chief Executive, to help solve the crisis before it “degenerated into a calamity.”
Checks by the GNA revealed that the people of Adaklu Vodze had also been facing the same challenge for three years now.
