The solar power pump is expected to pump 20,000 litres of water per day to the centre and the community.

Mr Abdul-Nashiru Mohammed, the Country Director of Water Aid, who commissioned the facility on Thursday, said it will serve the water needs of the centre and the community.

He said it would make women in the area more productive since they would no longer spend time to go in search of water and school children would also have time for their studies.

Mr Mohammed said the Commission has been working in Ghana for the past thirty years and was focused on providing portable drinking water for communities to serve their water needs.

Mr Mohammed said the Commission was currently working with twelve communities in four districts in the Upper East Region, providing water to health facilities.

He said many of the water facilities collapsed due to lack of proper management and called on the authorities of the centre to see to it that it was well-managed and maintained.

Mr David Naaire, the Coordinating Director of the Bawku West District Assembly, said the support of Water Aid would help ease the water difficulties experienced by the centre and urged the authorities of the health centre to maintain the facility.

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Source: GNA

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Mr Abdul-Nashiru Mohammed, Country Director of Water Aid Ghana said over 150,000 people have been able to access safe water whilst about 90,000 others had access to sanitation facilities through the Hongkong  Shanghai Banking Corporation Water Programme (HWP) implemented in the five districts.

[contextly_sidebar id=”ISmR12AOLGQtxrRnNkE59VwzsMg0aGx3″]Water Aid Ghana implemented the HWP in Wa, and Bolgatanga municipalities, Tamale metropolis, Birem North and Afram Plains North districts from 2012 to 2016 to improve access to WASH facilities.

Mr Mohammed, who was speaking at a close-out workshop of the HWP in Tamale, said 104 communities in the five districts were provided with WASH facilities whiles institutional latrines were built in 43 schools.

The close-out workshop, attended by officials from the beneficiary districts and Water Aid Ghana’s partner organisations, was to assess the delivery of the HWP.

Mr Mohammed said WASH facilities were provided in some communities that did not have electricity to power them adding efforts were being made to connect such facilities to the national grid for the benefit of the people.

Mr Sulaiman Issah Bello, Programme Manager of Water Aid Ghana who outlined the organisation’s programme of work said it would in the next three years; focus more on water provision to schools and healthcare centres for improved WASH practices.

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Source: GNA

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