President Nana Akufo-Addo has commended the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) for completing the rehabilitation of the Salaga water system project in the Savannah Region.
It will be recalled that in 2017, during a tour of Salaga, which was then part of the Northern Region, President Akufo-Addo announced, at a durbar of chiefs, that Salaga had outgrown the community management of their water supply system, and as such, directed that the Salaga water supply system be placed under the urban water supply category.
Consequently, the GWCL quickly took over the operations of the Salaga water system, and injected more than GH¢10 million into the project.
Thus far, 21 standpipes, comprising 15 in Salaga township, five in Kpembe and one in Masaka has been completed. Additionally, work was also ongoing for the replacement and upgrading of 0.5kilometre (km) of weak raw water pipeline, 18km of treated water pipeline and four km distribution pipeline.
The Managing Director of the GWCL, Dr Clifford Braimah, who was part of the President’s tour of the Savannah Region, on Monday, revealed that two staff bungalows, together with the treatment and pump house have been renovated.
He told President Akufo-Addo that two old elevated 20,000 gallons water stainless steel tanks have been rehabilitated, in addition to the construction of a new glass-reinforced high-level tank, with a capacity to contain 85,000 gallons of water in Kpembe.
It would serve Kpembe, Salaga Senior High School and the midwifery and nursing training college.
“Construction of a booster station for a new 57,000-gallon concrete underground tank is completed, and the procurement of two pumps to pump water to the Kpembe tank has commenced. Two new pumps will be procured to replace the current lower capacity ones being used. The old and weak pipeline from Salaga to Masaka will be replaced and the SSNIT flats area will be served through the pipeline,” Dr Braimah told President Akufo-Addo.
FROM TIMES REPOPRTER, KPEMBE
