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Potable water reaches 13,920 people in Hamile-Happa with GHC5.1 million water project

President Akufo-Addo has commissioned the GHC5.1 million Hamile-Happa Water Supply System in Lambussie

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the GHC5.1 million Hamile-Happa Small Town Piped Water Supply System, located in the Lambussie constituency of the Upper West Region.

According to President Akufo-Addo, the Hamile-Happa Small Town Piped Water Supply System has been built at a cost of just under GHC5.123 million, and will provide a total of 168,444 gallons of water for 13,920 people.

The president commissions the Hamile-Happa Small Town Piped Water Supply System in Lambussie, Upper West Region, in the company of Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister for Water and Sanitation

A new 200-cubic-metre, high-level tank, and two rehabilitated steel tanks, both with a capacity of 120 cubic metres, will store the water.

Speaking at the ceremony to commission the water project on Saturday (10 October 2020), the president noted that, in addition to Hamile-Happa, Lambussie is another beneficiary of the rural water supply system for the Upper West Region.

“Indeed, the Upper West Region has also benefitted from the drilling and construction of 250 boreholes, fitted with hand-pumps, to improve access to potable water in 240 communities in five districts, namely the Daffiama-Bussie-Issa, Sissala West, Lawra, Jirapa and Nandom Municipalities,” he said.

President Akufo-Addo told the gathering in Hamile that the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) has also completed water system designs for the construction of ten more small-town piped water systems in Pulima and Fielmour in the Sissala West District, in Eromon and Dowine in the Lawra Municipality, in Koo-Tuopare and Gou Zumapare in the Nandom Municipality, in Ullo and Duori in the Jirapa Municipality, and in Bussie and Issa in the Daffiama-Bussie-Issa District.

A section of the crowd at the ceremony to commission the Hamile-Happa Small Town Piped Water Supply System

He assured,the public that these water systems which have been designed will be constructed under the next phase of the World Bank funding facility, adding that “under this same Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project, the CWSA has facilitated the construction of 5,355 household latrines in the Upper West Region.”

He also announced that “2,014 digni-loo latrines have been provided for households to ensure that the communities have access to improved latrines. It is important to stress that the region has achieved Open Defecation Free status in 104 communities, largely as a result of this intervention.”

President Akufo-Addo expressed the expectation that, with the availability of potable water in Hamile now, new investors will take advantage of the government’s One District, One Factory flagship programme to establish small and medium-sized factories in order to open up the area for development, provide employment opportunities for the youth and improve the local economy.

The government, he stressed, would not relent in its efforts to increase access to Water For All, evidenced in the securing of funds for two other rural-based water supply projects to increase access to potable water in rural communities.

“These are the Rural Communities and Small Towns Water Supply Project, otherwise known as the Aqua Africa Water Project, which will benefit 150 communities in the Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra, Oti and Volta Regions, and Phase III of the Water Supply Scheme for Central Tongu, Adaklu Anyigbe, Agotime-Ziope Districts and the Ho Municipality.

“In addition, the government, through the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, has awarded contracts for the construction of 645 mechanised borehole systems nationwide,” he said.

Rural Water Supply Water Project

This Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project, begun in 2017, has been financed with a credit facility from the World Bank amounting to US$47.5 million.

The project components include the construction of piped water supply systems, support for household latrine construction, health and hygiene education, and environmental and social safeguards.

The rural water project has been implemented successfully in ten other regions, namely Ahafo, Bono, Bono East, Central, Northern, Savannah, North-East, Western, Western North and Upper East.

Some 432,609 people are beneficiaries of this project, whose aim is to increase access to potable water for all, in fulfilment of the New Patriotic Party’s commitment to “Water For All”.

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Wilberforce Asare / Asaase Radio

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