Project (SRWSP) is to provide 55 boreholes for communities without
potable water in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region by the
end of 2011.
The 75 million dollar project is being sponsored by the World
Bank with the Government of Ghana (GoG) contributing five million
dollars towards the implementation of the project in six regions
including the Upper West, Upper East, Northern, Brong-Ahafo, Western
and the Central Regions.
Six districts comprising; Nadowli, Wa Municipal, Wa West, Wa
East, Sissala West and Lambussie-Karni Districts would be benefiting
from the SRWSP in the Upper West Region.
Mr. Ameen Salifu, Wa East District Chief Executive (DCE)
disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency after the launch of the
project in Wa.
He expressed gratitude to the World Bank for making available
funds to support government to improve on rural communities’ access to
potable water.
The DCE said the allocation of the 55 boreholes to the district
would go a long way to improve access to potable water in the
district.
Mr Salifu mentioned communities in the district that would be
captured by the project to include, Kulun, Chawuli, Halenboi, Talawona
which had no access to potable water.
He said currently the district had about 50 percent water
coverage and expressed the hope that the 55 new boreholes to be
provided would push potable water coverage in the district to about 70
to 80 percent.
The DCE suggested to donor communities to endeavour to make
available a small percentage of funds meant for such projects for the
rehabilitation of nonfunctional facilities.
He said the norm of always providing new facilities without
rehabilitating the broken down facilities would be a waste of
resources.
He advised beneficiary communities to take proper care of such
facilities to prevent their frequent break downs.
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