Potable water is hard to come by at Manu; a farming community in the Kadjebi District of the Volta Region.
Residents of the area struggle daily for safe water for domestic purposes. They also lack other basic social amenities.
Safe drinking water is scarce in Kadjebi Manu and its environs.
The residents mostly rice and cocoa farmers fetch contaminated water from dugouts on the rice farms to drink and cook.
The water according to residents are most often contaminated with spillage from the agro-chemicals in the rice farms and algae.
Speaking to Citi News, one of the residents who identified himself as Kofi said the only alternative they have is a river which is also several kilometers away.
He said the few women and children who risk the several kilometers walk to the river for water are often exposed to snakes and other attacks.
“Our source of drinking water is not good at all. As you can see; it is lying in the middle of a rice farm and the rice farmers can spray the farms at any time which contaminates our water. It is very bad” he lamented.
Some of the residents also complained suffering from skin, ear, respiratory and eye diseases which they suspect is a result of the water they use.
Aside the water situation, the communities with a population of over 1000 people have no health facility and electricity supply.
The Assembly member for the area, Abdul Raman Ibrahim Baba called on other stakeholders to come to their aid.
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By: King Norbert Akpablie/citifmonline.com/Ghana