Though the Ghana Water Company Limited has been unable to end the water crisis in Adabraka after close to four weeks, it has made moves to provide temporary relief to the residents.
The utility provider has contracted some tanker drivers, carrying about 1,500 litres of water to make water runs to Adabraka.
The tankers make about three trips a day to the area, following a preplanned schedule.
“The Ghana Water Company Sent us here. Because of the struggles in this area, they told us to supply them with water,” one of the tanker operators Citi News run into said.
Residents have to rush out with their bucket, barrels and gallons to get as much water as possible.
“We have been struggling for water so you have to be going around the area chasing for [the water tankers] for water. Every day you have to be going around all the lanes… without this, we can’t get any water,” a frustrated resident complained.
Another woman directed her complaints to the state, noting that she has had to rely on sachet water to care for her family.
“We are suffering so we are pleading with the government to intervene so we can have water for our daily activities and also so we can take care of our activities.”
Though the there was some excitement as water was pumped into the various containers, the residents know their smiles will only last as long as the water in their buckets.
Alhaji Abu Pele Bagiga, a community leader around the Zongo chief’s palace in Adabraka, said the area could only hope that their suffering ends soon.
For him, the tanker relief, while welcome, is inadequate.
“I have a big family and by today or tomorrow, [the water] is finished. We are praying it should not continue and that by next week, we should start getting our water.”
“We are praying and we are requesting for the waterworks to start releasing the water so that we can get relief,” he added.
The situation has affected hundreds of households; many of whom have resorted to the use of water drawn from wells and sachet water for domestic purposes.
The GWCL has traced the problem to a shortage around the Ring Road.
“We are at the back of Paloma Hotel, what we are doing is we are tracing a suspected blockage through our 16 inches pipeline which is connected to Adabraka and some parts of Asylum Down, but what is hampering our efforts is the property which has been built on the pipeline, the pressure built up here is low, but we are very sensitive to their plight,” an engineer with the company told Citi News.
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citienwsroom.com/Ghana
