The Communications Manager of Aqua Vitens Rand Ltd, managers of the Ghana Water Company Ltd, Stanley Martey told Citi News that the power situation has reached crisis point. He advised residents in the two metropolitan areas to start storing water in anticipation of the acute water shortage.
Mr Stanley Martey said Aqua Vitens are doing everything possible to restore regular water supply as soon as the Electricity Company of Ghana finishes its upgrading works which have caused the interruption in water supply.
“ECG is upgrading the systems around Weija, the western part of Accra, so in the last seven weeks we have had serious challenges with power. We have not had consistent and constant production. In the last three days we have had serious challenges because ECG has been off and this morning when they came back and we started production they went off again”.
“We have had some information from VRA that they need between some three and four hours to do some plant maintenance at Akosombo and as a result Akosombo has also gone off. This means that Kpong is off and Weija is also off and the effect is that the whole of the Accra-Tema Metropolitan area will be without water for the next eight hours”.
“We are hoping that they would be able to complete whatever they are doing within the eight hours that they have demanded so we can start production other than that we might have to go beyond the eight hours”.
Stanley Martey urged residents of the Accra metropolis who currently have water to store some before their taps stop running.
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