Residents of Bolgatanga Municipal have shared a worrying experience of what they described as frequent dirty tap water flowing through their water pipe in recent times whenever Ghana Water Company (GWCL) decides to supply water to them.
One resident who spoke to Apexnewsgh.com was seen tied two yellow gallons popularly known as Kufour gallon on her motorbike whiles angrily going to look for another source of portable drinking elsewhere at a nearby mechanized borehole. According to her, the water from the Ghana Water Company in recent times has become too dirty posing a whole lot of health threat to her.
Meanwhile, two days after the ladies incident, Apexnewsgh.com received another call from another patriotic and loyal customer of Ghana Water Company complaining of the same dirty tap running water through his pipe.
According to these customers of the Ghana Water Company who was furious with such an unfortunate developing situation, “when you are fetching the water, you might not notice it immediately but, when you finish fetching the water and allow it for some time then, you will see the dirty particles settled down and most people drink the water directly from the tap without knowing the health implications”. He explained
Meanwhile, when Apexnewsgh.com contacted the Department of Water Quality Assurance Managers of the Ghana Water Company below were their explanations.
“There are so many factors that go into it, it could be from our source, and it could also be from the distribution network.
From our source, we ensure that at the treatment plant the quality of water that comes out meets the regulatory standard. Once it leaves the treatment plant and is coming down, there are so many activities on the way that cause it damages on our pipelines. They have this kind of construction work going on, we have illegal connections and those things. Within the distribution system, there can also be a leakage or burst that, if we don’t see it early enough and worked on it, it will allow the dirty water inside to contaminate it and another thing is that, some areas are still using copper pipes, metallic pipes. So, when they are using the metallic pipe because the demand of water in Bolga is huge in supply, there is what we call ‘rationing’. So, we need to ration the water so that everybody can get something small to take. So, when we have this kind of old pipelines especially in most of the old buildings that do not have these PVC pipes, the water can be colored because when it rust and water is not passing through it for some time, when they open the water it can be colored”. They explained
However, they appealed to the consumers to always report any of such incidents to them as soon as possible to enable them to investigate the cause and correct the problem.
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