Water Treatment Cost up by 38% in Ashanti
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
Cost of Water Treatment at the Barekese & Owabi Head Works, Supplying Water to Kumasi & Other Outlying Districts Had Gone up Due to Negative Human Activities at the Catchment Area
Mr Francis Awortwi, Ghana Water Company's acting Ashanti Regional Production Manager, said tree felling and increased human encroachment had led to a situation where the run-off of alluvia enters the dams, especially during the rainy season, making the raw water quality turbid.
There is also the dumping of solid and industrial waste from the Suame light industrial area, which enters the dams through small rivers and creeks and this combined with illegal mining activities tend to worsen the water quality.
That had significantly increased the levels of organic pollution, necessitating a corresponding increase in chemical application to make the water safe for human use, adding that, "this adds on cost".
Mr Awortwi, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Kumasi, said although they have been using permissible quantities of water treatment chemicals - aluminum sulphate, and calcium hypochlorite, it was likely more chemicals would have be used in the near future if such activities continued.
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