Government has invested more than US $ 740 million in water projects and more than US $ 1.2 million in rural water supply Wide - Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah
He said, those projects are in various stages of implementation and are expected to benefit another five million people in the water supply chain when completed in 2023.
Other cities that have benefited are: Yendi, Tamale, Damongo, Wenchi, Sunyani, Keta and Sekondi-Takoradi in other cities and towns where eight water supply programs are in progress.
He began by saying that the 2021 Population and Housing Census revealed that access to drinking water was estimated at 87.7 percent nationwide, with urban areas accounting for 96.4 percent and 74.4 percent in rural areas.
while reviewing the public with government intervention in the area of access to development.
Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, announced this in Accra on Monday.
however, he complained about the negative human actions that hindered the implementation of those interventions and noted that of the 53.2 billion cubic meters of Ghanaian clean water, only 14 percent were used.
other negative human activities such as illegal mining, access to water supply infrastructure, win rocks / sand, farming in protected areas in rivers and the release of pollutants into the water as it prevents the maximum profitability of such interventions.
"The integrity of this renewable water source, as well as the availability of groundwater in various geological areas, is constantly threatened by these negligent human activities and we must end this evil," said the Minister.
He emphasized the need for concerted efforts to increase the number of water monitoring stations in order to curb unregulated human activities.
The Department of Sanitation and Water Resources will soon begin a house-to-house survey to address illegal land mines to prevent loss of income by Ghana Water Company Limited, he added.
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