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The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in the Northern Region has warned that it may be forced to cut off Tamale's water supply and surrounding communities, due to illegal sand collector activities in one of its treatment plants in the region.
According to the company, the situation has worsened because it sucks more mud than water, because of the significant silt caused by the capture of sand in the white Volta.
The White Volta is the only source of raw water for hundreds of thousands of people in Tamale and other surrounding communities.
However, sand harvesting activities divert the flow of the river and increase turbidity.
Ghana Water Company Limited claims to lose more than 65,000 Ghanaian cedis daily to the Dalun water treatment plant due to sand mining.
GWCL Public Relations Officer in the North Region, Nii Abbey, speaking to Joy News at a stakeholder forum hosted by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, said that all efforts to get the authorities to regulate the activities of these winners had failed. .
"We come to a situation in which the activities of the illegal sand producers are maintained, we could be forced to suspend our activities because the treatment stations are built in order to extract water and not mud, as are the activities of illegal sand growers ….. the silting to the extent that now we are practically drawing mud. "
"If we do not take care of ourselves, we may have to suspend our activities and we know the economic, health and even our daily activities," he added.
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