GOVERNMENT SPENDS MORE ON WATER, SANITATION IN ASHANTI

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Government has so far spent more than seven-point-seven million Ghana Cedis on various water projects aimed at improving access to potable water for the people in the Ashanti region. 

The projects include hand dug wells, boreholes and small town water supply systems in various communities. 

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Peter Anarfi-Mensah who made this known at the last meeting of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council in Kumasi, assured that water supply and expansion is high on the agenda of the government. 

It is for this reason that serious attention is being given to the Kumawu water project popularly known as the ‘3K Water Project’. 

The project, on completion, will provide reliable potable water supply to Kumawu and Konongo and their surrounding communities in the Ashanti region as well as the Kwahu North district of the Eastern region. 

Touching on sanitation, the Regional Minister disclosed also that government has again spent 30-point-three million Ghana Cedis on 447 projects aimed at improving environmental sanitation in various communities in the Ashanti region. 

This is in appreciation of the fact that environmental sanitation is an important factor in ensuring healthy living and prevention of the incidence of avoidable diseases among the people. 

It is in this regard that the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has instituted the monthly National Sanitation Programme to galvanize the people to keep maintain environmental hygiene. 

Additionally, that same Ministry has entered into partnership with the UK Department for International Development to introduce a sanitation competition christened ‘Sanitation Challenge for Ghana’ which is open to almost all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to compete for a handsome cash prize by being the best in sanitation management. 

Mr. Anarfi-Mensah therefore entreated the MMDAs within the Ashanti region to take keen interest and participate in the competition so as to get the needed support to address their sanitation challenges.

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