Ghana - Water Supply Project
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Non Profit
One million people to get potable water by 2017 in Ghana
WaterHealth Ghana (WHG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Water Health International (WHI), a private multinational company, is to establish 100 Waterhealth centres across the 10 regions of the country, its Chief Operating Officer, Mr Vikas Shah, has announced.
Currently, about five million people in seven regions have access to safe water due to the network of WHCs in Ghana.
Water health centres have pieces of water purification equipment that treats locally available water through a combination of sedimentation, pre-filtration and ultra-violet technology.
Each centre produces water to the standard of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and it is made available for a nominal usage fee on site or pumped to additional distribution points, depending on the size and density of the community.
During a tour of the facility at Dome in Accra, Mr Shah explained to journalists that WHI was a water micro-utility which delivered sustainable service involving the purification of local water resources to WHO quality drinking water standards.
The organisation, he said, worked through a public-private partnership (PPP) model to set up a water purification plant which could serve a community with a population ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 where the land, raw water source and electricity were provided by the community.
Source: Ghana Web
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