Affected residents are now trekking several distances in search of water for domestic use.

Residents in areas such as; Asawase, Sawaba, Aboabo, Asafo, Asokwa, Adum, Nhyiaeso, Ahodwo, Kwadaso, Patasi, Santasi, Fankyinibra, TUC, Anloga, Ayigya Tech, Odoum and Kentikrono are the hardest hit.

The GWCL, issued a press statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Samsom Ampa, said, “Emergency maintenance works in the system could not be completed by GWCL engineers on Tuesday, due to some technical challenges. However, our engineers are working hard to complete the work after which supply will be restored.”

Citi News checks at some of these affected areas revealed that residents including children as young as five years were combing the areas in search of water.

One of the residents said, “It is really affecting us because we cannot get potable water to drink. This one as you can see, there are so many impurities in it. I have walked for about 200 meters to come here to fetch water. They should open the water for us because we are struggling. If you want to drink water you have to buy sachet water and it’s not everybody who can afford.”

Another said he will not be enable to go to school if he does not get the water since he needs to bath in the morning.

Residents in other affected areas Citi News visited had queued at dug Bore-holes and wells struggling to get water.

Water from these sources according to the residents, was unwholesome for drinking.

Meanwhile, the GWCL has made alternative arrangements for hospitals with the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) until the situation is normalized.

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A directive from the Manhyia Palace ordered that all residents join in giving the city a face-lift in terms of sanitation.

As part of the directive, all shops are to be opened after 12 midday when cleaning is over.

On Friday primary and Junior High school pupils helped clean the surroundings of the Kumasi Airport, through the Airport roundabout to the Manhyia Palace.

Roads leading to the Central Business District have also been blocked for this purpose.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Waste Department’s direction, Mr. Gorkeh Mia said “150 waste collecting tricycles have been deployed to take waste off the street after the general cleanup.”

The burial rites of the late Asante Queen mother will begin on Monday, 16 to Thursday 19th of this year.

Earlier, the Manhyia Palace had ordered that people stay indoors from 7pm of Thursday evening to 4am of Friday morning. This generated fear amongst residents, however, Otumfuo’s Mawrehene, Baffour Hyeaman Brantuo IV has allayed fears.

He said as tradition demands, “the journey to the village should go on uninterrupted, that is why we are asking people to stay indoors. The tradition of having peoples’ heads for burial was abolished 200 years ago.”

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The military is parading more hardware than usual and the display, which marks the Soviet victory in World War Two, had a longer running time.

Unconfirmed reports say President Vladimir Putin may visit a parade in the Crimean port of Sevastopol later.

Festivities in Ukraine will be muted amid fears of provoking further violence in the south and east.

Moscow denies fomenting separatist unrest in Ukraine.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would be a “pity” if Mr Putin were to “use” the commemorations to visit Crimea.

The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says Russia has experienced a wave of patriotism following its annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in March.

Mr Putin did not mention Ukraine in his speech, telling the crowd that the “iron will of the Soviet people” had saved Europe from slavery.

“It is a holiday when an overwhelming force of patriotism triumphs, when all of us feel particularly acutely what it means to be loyal to the Motherland and how important it is to defend its interests,” he said.

The parade in Moscow traditionally features a display of military hardware and a show of patriotic fervour on Red Square.

The scope of this year’s event was bigger than usual:

• The parade lasted 59 minutes, compared with its usual 45 minute running time
• Fifty more military vehicles were on display compared with last year
• The Sevastopol-based Black Sea Fleet played a larger role

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s interim authorities have discouraged public gatherings amid fears that pro-Russian activists might try to stoke violence.

“Roadblocks have been set up around our capital, where serious checks are being carried out, because we expect that provocative actions may occur on May 9,” said Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov.

A low-key wreath-laying ceremony is planned in Kiev.

Nazi Germany invaded the USSR – which included Ukraine – in June 1941 and advanced almost as far as Moscow before being driven back to Berlin in some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

Russia estimates that 26.6 million Soviet citizens were killed in the war, about 8.7 million of them members of the armed forces.

Referendums

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine say they will go ahead with independence referendums on Sunday, despite a call from President Putin to postpone them.

The decision was announced by separatist leaders in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk on Thursday.

Activists remain in control of many official buildings across the south and east despite a military operation by Kiev to remove them. Dozens of people have been killed in the unrest.

Moscow insists it has a right to protect Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population against what it calls an undemocratic government in Kiev. However, Mr Putin had called for the referendums on autonomy to be postponed to create the conditions for dialogue.

Mr Putin also said he was removing troops massed along Russia’s border with Ukraine, but Nato says it has seen no sign of a withdrawal.

Ukraine is preparing for elections on 25 May following the ousting of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February by pro-Western protesters.

Source: BBC

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