{"id":190094,"date":"2016-02-15T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=190094"},"modified":"2016-02-15T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:00:11","slug":"in-pictures-nsawams-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=190094","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Nsawam’s water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than a month, residents of the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality and surrounding communities have lived without water.\u00a0\u00a0 Their taps are not flowing.\u00a0\u00a0 This is because the Densu River which serves\u00a0 the community is drying up.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 situation\u00a0 has been attributed to the dry weather condition\u00a0 and other human activities such as illegal mining and farming along the banks of the river.<\/p>\n

Residents forced to drink from here<\/strong><\/p>\n

Residents, mostly women and children have no choice than to either walk or drive several miles\u00a0 just to get\u00a0 the bank of the tributary of\u00a0 the\u00a0 Densu\u00a0 River to fetch water .<\/p>\n

Some of them (especially school children) have to abandon classes early in the morning\u00a0 to fetch water.\u00a0 The situation is taking a toll on academic work in some schools in the area.<\/p>\n

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Residents fetching \u00a0watching from a\u00a0 contaminated\u00a0 tributary \u00a0of the Densu River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Others drive their cars \u00a0to this\u00a0 contaminated water source\u00a0 to fetch water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Emmanuel Amenu, a thirty year old taxi driver in the Nsawam Municipality comes here every day with his taxi full of yellow gallons, to fetch water for his passengers.<\/p>\n

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Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Pearl Akanya Ofori\u2019s visit to the Nsawam headworks on Saturday revealed that the river with a maximum capacity of 17 meters, had gone below its minimum of two meters.<\/p>\n

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The Densu River is now filled with silt such that one\u00a0can even walk on the dry ground in the river bed.<\/p>\n

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Excavator deployed to dredge the Densu River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Measures <\/strong><\/p>\n

As\u00a0 a result\u00a0 of the\u00a0 shortage, the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing, \u00a0has deployed\u00a0 water\u00a0 tankers\u00a0 to service residents\u00a0 and\u00a0 schools\u00a0 in the\u00a0 Nsawam- Adoagyiri municipality.<\/p>\n

The deployment <\/a><\/strong><\/span>of the water tankers is being\u00a0done\u00a0by the Ghana<\/em> Water company Limited, the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and the National Security.<\/p>\n

The intervention by the GWCL,\u00a0is intended to mitigate the impact of the water shortage that has hit the area.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile\u00a0 the company\u00a0has blamed the residents for\u00a0 contributing\u00a0 to the prevailing\u00a0 situation.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 GWCL told Citi News<\/strong> on Monday that the situation would persist if residents did not put a stop to polluting the Densu River.<\/p>\n

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By: Pearl Akanya Ofori \/Citifmonline .com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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