GWCL NEEDS $2BN FOR 100% WATER COVERAGE BY 2025

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Nana Yaw Barimah Barnie making his presentation
Ghana Water Company Limited, GWCL, plans to attain a hundred per cent water supply coverage by the year 2025.

 To be able to achieve the target in the 10 year period, the company requires two billion Dollars.

 An official of the company, Nana Yaw Barimah Barnie made this known during a presentation at an Ashanti regional stakeholder consultative forum in Kumasi to justify the company’s proposal to the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission to review upward its present tariff. 

The water company is asking PURC to increase water tariff from the present one Ghana Cedi 78 Pesewas to four Ghana Cedis. 

According to Nana Yaw Barimah Barnie, even though coverage of pipe borne water to urban centres across the country has improved from 64 point-three per cent in 2013 to 77 per cent this year, Ashanti region alone, water coverage has shot up from 57 point-one per cent to 67 point-two per cent during the same period. 

Yet, there is still a big gap between supply and demand. He said during the two year period, GWCL has invested 768 million Dollars on various water expansion projects. 

Such projects, he noted, include the Barekese Dam expansion for Kumasi and its environs, the Aframso and Agona water projects. 

Nana Yaw Barimah Barnie said however, that the company continuous to face numerous operational challenges. 

These include high cost of chemical treatment of the raw water, the lack of back-up equipment for operation, high cost of power for operations in addition to the low incentives to attract and retain quality staff. 

Despite all these, the company sells potable water at a very cheap cost to its customers such that the price of bottled water is more than that of four barrels of pipe borne water produced by the company. 

He therefore appealed to Ghanaians to accept the request for tariff adjustment to enable the company to continue to serve them well.

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