{"id":138880,"date":"2015-07-31T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=138880"},"modified":"2015-07-31T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T13:18:51","slug":"kadjebi-manu-residents-survive-on-contaminated-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=138880","title":{"rendered":"No clean water for Kadjebi-Manu residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Potable water is hard to come by\u00a0at\u00a0Manu; a farming community in the Kadjebi District of the Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Residents of the area struggle daily for safe\u00a0water for domestic purposes. They also lack\u00a0other basic social amenities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Safe\u00a0drinking water is scarce \u00a0in Kadjebi Manu and its environs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The residents mostly rice and cocoa farmers fetch contaminated water from dugouts on the rice farms to drink and cook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-138886 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-2.jpg\" alt=\"contaminated water (2)\" width=\"454\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-2.jpg 454w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-2-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-2-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The water according to residents are most often contaminated with spillage from the agro-chemicals in the rice farms and algae.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking\u00a0to 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur 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\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-138884\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-1-868x1024.jpg\" alt=\"contaminated water (1)\" width=\"620\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-1-868x1024.jpg 868w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-1-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/contaminated-water-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aside the water situation, the communities with a population of over 1000 people have no health facility and electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Assembly member for the area, Abdul Raman Ibrahim Baba called on other\u00a0stakeholders to come to their aid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: King Norbert Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potable water is hard to come by\u00a0at\u00a0Manu; a farming community in the Kadjebi District of the Volta Region. Residents of the area struggle daily for safe\u00a0water for domestic purposes. They also lack\u00a0other basic social amenities. Safe\u00a0drinking water is scarce \u00a0in Kadjebi Manu and its environs. The residents mostly rice and cocoa farmers fetch contaminated water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":138887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-138880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}