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Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, said the government was keeping its promise to distribute water to all communities in the country.
She said nearly six million Ghanaians were placed on drinking water networks, thanks to recent investments of $ 1 billion in water supply projects across the country, an ambitious company which approved. the president’s mantra “water for all”.
“Our mantra ‘water for all’ is not just a slogan. If people say we are making slogans, that is not true. It is not factual. Whatever we want to do, we will do it, ”Ms. Dapaah said.
The minister was interacting with the media during a working visit of the Keta water supply project in Agordome in the South Tongu district of the Volta region and said that major water supply projects were underway in Sekondi, Sunyani, Keta, Tamale and Damongo, among other areas and would supply 5.7 million people by 2023.
She said the government’s progress in achieving the SDGs had been enriched as a result and praised the efforts of all actors in the project, including host communities who provided land and other essential supports.
Ms. Dapaah said that the President, who had personally laid the groundwork for the projects, held them in high regard and expected value for money as well as prompt and quality delivery.
The government had made it a policy to supply all the villages, hamlets and towns crossed by the main pipelines, and also to ensure that the life of the projects was extended by at least a decade, he said. she declared.
Ms. Dapaah called on community stakeholders to continue supporting the intervention and demanded that the Ghana Water Company Limited pay the necessary compensation on the land and other resources acquired.
The Keta Water Extension is an 85 million euro project to supply some 422,000 people in the vicinity of Keta.
GNA
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