{"id":128355,"date":"2015-06-26T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T06:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=128355"},"modified":"2015-06-25T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:05:16","slug":"government-tackles-yendi-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/06\/government-tackles-yendi-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Government tackles Yendi water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Government has directed the Ghana Water Company Limited in Tamale to organize constant water tanker services to serve residents of Yendi Municipality.<\/p>\n
This forms part of immediate steps adopted by government to ease the water crisis which has hit the area.<\/p>\n
Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Samson Ahi gave the directive during his visit to Yendi Township to assess the situation.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n His timely visit followed a group calling itself the Concerned Yendi Residents call on government to fix the problem.<\/p>\n The group threatened to demonstrate on June 28, 2015 if government failed to address the problem. \u201cThere are immediate steps to be taken to solve this problem looking into the future and immediately we have asked the Ghana Water Company in Tamale to organize tankers services to support social institutions such as the hospital, schools and institutions that are of national concern.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n He stated that the population of Yendi overpowered water delivery systems which necessitated the short supply.<\/p>\n \u201cThe water problem is quite alarming because if you look at the population of Yendi today on daily basis we should be able to produce and distribute about 2.8 million gallons a day but at the moment we are doing around 850,000 gallons a day: that is when all things being equal there is inflows into the Daka river then we are producing and distributing at the peak but when we have a natural situation like this where the rains are not coming then the problem becomes serious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSamson Ahi said government had considered the Yendi water crisis as a human catastrophe, hence the rapid response.<\/p>\n