THE second phase of the Koforidua water rehabilitation project will be completed by December this year to ease the perennial water problem facing the New Juaben municipality.
Under the project, which began in 2007 with a Belgian loan of €35 million, 3.5 million gallons of water will be pumped from the Volta Lake at Kpornyakope in Manya Krobo to a treatment plant at Bukonor in Yilo Krobo for distribution to the New Juaben municipality and some other areas in the East Akyem District.
The project is being undertaken by Denys Engineering of Belgium.
Although the municipality’s estimated population of 200,000 need not less than four million gallons of water per day, the current water supply from the Densu and the Suhyen rivers pumped from two small treatment plants at Suhyen and Densuagya is 1.2 million gallons.
At the moment, the first phase of the project of putting up the treatment plant has been completed, while the second phase, the laying of the pipelines in the municipality, is ongoing.
The third phase involves the extension of water supply to Tafo, Osiem and other communities in the East Akyem District.
Briefing the press and students from some second-cycle institutions last Wednesday after a tour of the Densuagya Dam and its laboratory and treatment plants as part of activities to mark World Water Day which fell on March 22, 2009, the Eastern Regional Production Manager of Aqua Vittens Rand Limited/Ghana Water Company, Mr Martin Ansah, said considering the work so far done, water would flow from the Volta to Koforidua in December this year.
“You have all seen the pipes being laid in the municipality so uninterrupted supply of water will be made available to Koforidua in nine months to end the perennial water shortage in the area,” he stated.
With regard to the third phase, which involves the extension of the facility to Tafo, Osiem and surrounding communities in the East Akyem District, Mr Ansah said that would be possible in 2011 when the project would be completed.
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