MDAs In Volta / Oti Owe GWCL 27 ¢ Million GH ¢ | General news

The ministries and agencies of the Volta and Oti regions owe the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) a total of 27.6 million GH ¢ of debts.

Although MDAs represent only 1.5% of clients, which corresponds to 478 out of a working population of 31,597 clients in both regions, they collectively owed 80% of all outstanding debts owed to the company.

Mr. David Seshie, the company's regional sales manager, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that MDAs and other private customers in both regions collectively had a mbadive debt of 34 million cedis.

He mentioned that the 66 artillery regiment (Volta Barracks) and the Ho University Hospital, formerly the Volta Regional Hospital, were among the biggest defaulters, accumulating 3.95 million and 2.08 million GH, respectively, over a period of 102 and 125 months.

Mr. Seshie said that in addition to dealing with recalcitrant members of the public for illegal connections.

He revealed that the company had begun a mbadive disconnection exercise to buy back its investments.
Mr. John Eric Kwofie, GWCL's Regional Director of Production, said that about two decades ago, Ho was the only regional capital to have treated water above the population, but the situation has changed dramatically.

He stated that Ho's minimum demand was 7.5 million gallons per day, but that production reached 2.5 million gallons per day, resulting in forced rationing of the resource every two weeks while he was calling on his customers to store water.

Kwofi said the company is reactivating the mechanization of two boreholes on Kabakaba Hill to boost supply.

He added that plans were underway to expand the Kpeve Head plant to produce a capacity of 20 million gallons per day from the current production of 4 million gallons.

Kwofi said the feasibility studies had been completed with proposals from two Chinese companies for expansion work designed to last two decades.

He added that the company was planning to expand its waters to Tanyigbe, Adaklu, Kpetoe, Abutia, Taviefe, Kpedze, Tsito, Dzolokpuita and Anyirawase after the expansion works.

Mr Kwofi said the Dayi River in Hohoe had been dredged to increase the flow of absorption in order to meet the demand of 7.5 million liters per gallon, while the current supply was up. was 0.4 million gallons for Hohoe.