{"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\/2016\/02\/in-pictures-nsawams-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Nsawam&#8217;s water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p><strong>Residents forced to drink from here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190104\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-one.jpg\" alt=\"pic one\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190109\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-two.jpg\" alt=\"pic two\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190107\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-190107 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-three.jpg\" alt=\"pic three\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents fetching \u00a0watching from a\u00a0 contaminated\u00a0 tributary \u00a0of the Densu River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190102\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-four.jpg\" alt=\"pic four\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190098\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-five.jpg\" alt=\"pic five\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190099\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-190099 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-six.jpg\" alt=\"pic six\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Others drive their cars \u00a0to this\u00a0 contaminated water source\u00a0 to fetch water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190097\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PIC-SEVEN.jpg\" alt=\"PIC SEVEN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Nsawam\u00a0treatment\u00a0plant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190108\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-twelve.jpg\" alt=\"pic twelve\" width=\"599\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190100\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-eight.jpg\" alt=\"pic eight\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190105\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-ten.jpg\" alt=\"pic ten\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Densu River is now filled with silt such that one\u00a0can even walk on the dry ground in the river bed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190103\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-190103 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-nine.jpg\" alt=\"pic nine\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavator deployed to dredge the Densu River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Measures <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2016\/02\/15\/nsawam-water-crisis-nadmo-and-national-security-to-provide-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\">deployment <\/a><\/strong><\/span>of the water tankers is being\u00a0done\u00a0by the <em>Ghana<\/em> Water company Limited, the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and the National Security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The intervention by the GWCL,\u00a0is intended to mitigate the impact of the water shortage that has hit the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile\u00a0 the company\u00a0has blamed the residents for\u00a0 contributing\u00a0 to the prevailing\u00a0 situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0 GWCL told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> on Monday that the situation would persist if residents did not put a stop to polluting the Densu River.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By: Pearl Akanya Ofori \/Citifmonline .com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pearlakanya\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @pearlakanya<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 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