Kyebi Water project completed

Page 44 (Lead) May 26/2008

Story & Pic: Charles Benoni Okine

THE Kyebi water supply system has been rehabilitated at a cost of GH¢160,000 to supply potable water to the people.
The project, which was undertaken by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) and Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL), is expected to produce 39,000 gallons of water to serve a population of about 11,400 people.
The Managing Director of the GWCL, Mr Cobbie Kessie, told the Daily Graphic in Accra that the project formed part of measures to address the water problem in Kyebi, known as one of the historical towns in the country.
He said the move also formed part of efforts by the company to rehabilitate old water systems to improve water supply in the country.
Mr Kessie said two boreholes had also been drilled and mechanised for the Abuakwa State College and Kyebi at Oman.
In addition to that, he said repair works had been undertaken on the high-level pressed steel overhead tank to contain 10,000 gallons of water at a time.
Mr Kessie said the companies also provided chemical doers and a standby low lift pumping unit as part of the project.
He said the project was expected to solve, to a large extent, the water problem in the town and expressed the hope that the people would make judicious use of the water, as well as maintain and protect the project to last a life time.