The Appearing Managing Director of Ghana Water Restricted (GWL), Mr Adam Mutawakilu, has launched into a system-wide evaluation tour of key water remedy vegetation in Accra to judge operational lapses and determine rapid options to spice up manufacturing.
The go to follows administration’s proactive recognition of important challenges affecting water provide, and the necessity for pressing interventions to bridge the demand-supply hole and guarantee environment friendly service supply.
The tour, which included visits to the Weija Water Therapy Plant, the Kpong Water Therapy Plant, and the Accra Desalination Plant, was aimed toward gaining first hand perception into the challenges hindering optimum water manufacturing.
An announcement issued in Accra yesterday and signed by the Chief Supervisor, PR and Communications of the GWL, Stanley Mantey, acknowledged
that Mr Mutawakilu engaged with plant engineers and operators to evaluate infrastructure circumstances, technical constraints, and areas requiring pressing intervention.
“With Accra’s every day water demand estimated at 220 million gallons towards a manufacturing capacity of solely 130 million gallons, the town faces a big shortfall of 90 million gallons.
Acknowledging this hole, the MD assures stakeholders that GWL was dedicated to enhancing operational effectivity, producing at optimum capability, and deploying fashionable know-how to enhance provide.” he indicated.
Mr Mutawakilu careworn the necessity for swift motion to handle tools upkeep points, improve growing old infrastructure and operational setbacks that hinder optimum manufacturing and careworn the necessity for rapid interventions, together with system upgrades to enhance water availability for residents within the Higher Accra Metropolitan Space.
Accompanied by his crew of Chief Managers and the Appearing Deputy Managing Director in command of operations, the MD assured that GWL’s dedication to implementing each short-term and long-term options to make sure that residents had entry to a dependable and sustainable water provide was prime precedence.
Along with the remedy vegetation, the GWL’s MD additionally visited the strategic installations, together with the Mile 18 Central Workshop, the place important repairs and fabrication of big pipes, pumps, and drainage programs are carried out and the Central tore when important chemical compounds and different supplies are stored.
The ability, the assertion added, performs a vital position in majortaining water infrastructure, and efforts are underway to offer the mandatory sources to make sure the swift restore of outdated pumps and components important for enhancing Accra’s water provide.
Following the inspection, Mr Mutawakilu reaffirmed the Governments of H. E. John Dramani Mahamah’s imaginative and prescient for the Water Sector and GWL’s dedication to addressing manufacturing shortfalls by enhancing operational effectivity on the remedy vegetation and the central workshop,
The corporate, he acknowledged, intends to implement focused interventions to bridge the water provide hole and be certain that residents of Accra have entry to a extra constant and dependable water provide.
As a part of its long-term strategy, the MD famous that the corporate was contemplating the adoption of superior water remedy technologies to enhance effectivity and scale back water losses.
Moreover, he famous that plans had been underway to rehabilitate growing old infrastructure and increase present remedy vegetation to spice up manufacturing capability according to the rising inhabitants and industrial enlargement.
Mr Mutawakilu additional reiterated that whereas short-term measures would assist alleviate rapid provide challenges, long-term make investmentsments in infrastructure and coverage reforms had been important to making sure water safety for Accra and its surrounding areas.
BY TIMES REPORTER
