{"id":133984,"date":"2015-07-13T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=133984"},"modified":"2015-07-13T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:31:34","slug":"drinking-from-the-gutter-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/drinking-from-the-gutter-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking from the gutter – [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fadama is the biggest and oldest slum in Ghana with a population of over 90,000 living in shack-like dwellings.<\/p>\n
Many of the people here have come to Accra to escape the poverty of their villages, looking for a better life.<\/p>\n
The People have managed to settle here for a long time under very unhygienic conditions.<\/p>\n
Many of the cholera case recorded in past outbreaks have mostly come from Old Fadama and Agbogbloshie.<\/p>\n
Contaminated water has been cited by health professional as one of the possible causes of the outbreaks here.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n According to the Ghana water company about 99 percent of the water connection here is illegal.<\/p>\n This is because most of the people here cannot afford to pay for legal connections to their various homes.<\/p>\n Pipe lines in gutters<\/strong><\/p>\n From the Agbogbloshie market, through to Old Fadama, I see a number of exposed pipe lines laying in very dirty gutters. Most of the exposed pipes are burst. This is a common scene here.<\/p>\n A few meters from where I stand, a man washes his tomatoes with water from a burst pipe which lies close to a gutter as many market women look on.<\/p>\n Behind the shacks at Old Fadama is a big gutter, choked off course with all sorts of substances ranging from empty water sachet to diapers, rotten fruits and vegetables mixed with dirty dark smelly water.<\/p>\n In this gutter lay hundreds of pipe lines connected from a main water source or chamber about 10 meters away. The hissing sounds of water can be heard as it forces its way out of the burst pipes.<\/p>\n