College students of Odorgonno and Accra Ladies Senior Excessive Faculties have been taken on a tour to the Weija Water Deal withment Plant as a part of actions to commemorate World Water Day 2025.
The separate excursions organised by the Accra West and Accra East Areas of the Ghana Water Restricted (GWL) final Friday was a part of actions marking this 12 months’s World Water Day, noticed globally underneath the theme: “Glacier Preservation” and in Ghana underneath the theme “Water Conservation.”
It’s aimed toward elevating consciousness of water’s worth and inspiring college students to change into advocates for water conservation.
The occasion was a part of the corporate’s efforts to commemorate World Water Day 2025, which is widely known yearly on March 22.
Addressing the scholars of the Odorgonno SHS, the Accra West Supervisor of the GWL, Emmanuel Johnson, emphasised that water conservation was essential for the nation’s sustainability, spotlighting the challenges going through Ghana’s water our bodies, together with unlawful mining, sand successful, and air pollution.
He warned that continued misuse of water sources may result in extreme shortages, doubtlessly forcing communities to hunt water from more and more distant sources at larger prices.
Mr Johnson stated Ghana Water Company confronted many challenges, together with infrastructure leakages, unlawful water connections, and industrial losses that threatened water provide.
He talked about a few of the key challenges as getting older pipeline infrastructure, unauthorised water connections, and environmental degradation from unlawful mining actions.
The Larger Accra Regional Supervisor of GWL, Mr Charles Tulashie, addressing the Accra Ladies SHS college students said that though the Weija Dam had the capability to provide 54 million gallons of water every day, it at present provided a mean of 45 million on account of infrastructure challenges and human actions threatening the dam’s supply.
“By deliberate and efficient cooperation in conserving water, we will stability everybody’s water wants, stop waterborne illnesses, and guarantee water and meals safety, peace and stability,” he emphasised.
Urging the general public to undertake home-based water conservation measures to help nationwide efforts, the regional supervisor, advisable the set up of low-flow showerheads, which might save as much as 15 gallons of water throughout a 10-minute bathe.
The Accra West Communications Supervisor of Ghana Water Restricted, Solace A.M. Akomeah, in a presentation on water conservation highlighted the consequences of water wastage, revealing that straightforward every day habits may result in significant water and monetary losses.
She demonstrated that leaving a faucet working whereas brushing tooth can waste as much as one gallon of water per minute, translating to roughly $24.89 in annual water prices.
Ms Akomeah urged water customers to show off faucets when not in use, checking for leaks, taking shorter showers, and utilizing water-efficient bathe heads.
The Communications Supervisor for GWL’s Accra East Area, Nana Yaw Barnie, stated that almost two billion individuals worldwide lacked entry to scrub ingesting water, with many water sources increasingly in danger on account of human actions.
He referred to as on college students to be ambassadors for water conservation, stating; “Should you defend freshwater sources, you defend water for everybody.”
