The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah on Tuesday, February 21, gone by the Nsawam and Weija Water Treatment Plants.
The reason of her visit was to examine the Densu Stream which serves as the crude water source for the Nsawam Water Treatment Plant and to assist examine progressing human exercises within the buffer zones.
Cecilia Abena Dapaah was went with by authorities of the Service and Staff of the Ghana Water Company Constrained, counting the Overseeing Chief of Ghana Water Company Restricted (GWCL), Ing. Dr. Clifford Abdallah Braimah.
The Segment Serve was taken on a visit of the plant where she was briefed on the current levels of the crude water source. Due to the dry season, the Densu Waterway had gone down underneath the least deliberation level.
Sanitation and Water Resources Minister visits Nsawam and Weija treatment plants
The least deliberation level of the plant is 2.3 meters but as at February 13, 2022, the level was at 1.3 meters, as a result the plant had to be closed down for need of water. With later downpours upstream, water levels had expanded to 2.3 meters, which was sufficient for operational exercises on the plant.
Cecilia Abena Dapaah commended the staff of the Nsawam Treatment Plant for their endeavors in keeping the plant working and slick.
Sanitation and Water Resources Minister visits Nsawam and Weija treatment plants
The Serve assist cautioned tenants to cease from locks in in clearing and cultivating exercises along the buffer zones. She highlighted the truth that once such exercises are executed, siltation happens as free soil is washed into the water source, in this way taking off little sums of water for treatment.
The Serve shown that each water source or waterway ought to be given a 100-meter buffer on both sides which can allow for trees to be planted, as a implies of giving shade for the crude water source.
Sanitation and Water Resources Minister visits Nsawam and Weija treatment plants
“Without vegetation within the buffer zones, water sources are likely to dry up due to siltation and introduction to the sun, which causes tall rate of evaporation, subsequently the require for these demarcations.
“The Service will collaborate with the Forestry Commission and the Service of Lands and Natural Resources for seedlings to be planted around delineated ranges possessed by Ghana Water Company Restricted and buffer zones for water bodies. We'll not hold up for individuals to encroach some time recently taking activity. We have to be compelled to be proactive”, the Serve intimated.