{"id":270952,"date":"2016-11-23T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270952"},"modified":"2016-11-23T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:14:12","slug":"purcs-boreholes-shouldnt-cost-more-than-ghc30000-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/purcs-boreholes-shouldnt-cost-more-than-ghc30000-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"PURC’s boreholes shouldn’t cost more than GHc30,000 – Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"
Government should be spending between GHc 25,000 and GHc 30,000 on its mechansied borehole construction, and not the estimated GHc 60,000 per borehole, a water and sanitation expert, Patrick Apoya, has said.<\/p>\n
According to him, the intervention government is undertaking, most likely falls under the category of a limited borehole mechanisation per information available on the project from the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC).<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”MaYxL6NQSkHDBQAzpADSiiXmdjZfEyv6″]”As a pro-poor intervention, they will not be thinking about full blown water supply scheme,” Mr. Apoya noted on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This follows the opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP), claim that government, through the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), is spending about GHc30 million on some 500 boreholes in the country coming to about GHc\u00a060,000 per borehole.<\/p>\n Mr. Apoya explained that, boreholes could be categorised into three types, that is a borehole fitted with hand pumps,\u00a0mechanised boreholes\u00a0and limited-mechanised boreholes.<\/p>\n He proceeded to outline the prospective costs for the various types indicating that, \u201cif the borehole is fitted with hand pumps, the highest you can think of anywhere in the country is about GHc15,000; but there are places where you can even get it at GHc12,000.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn such an instance, you are doing all the geophysics, you are doing the drilling, the development, the water quality test and the installation of the hand pump,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n He explained further that, for mechanised\u00a0boreholes, \u201cif you want to mechanise and put the tap in one location which we call the limited mechanised system, you just put a tower, put a tank (about 10,000 litres) and drop a pipe or two pipes. You could go as high as GHc 30,000 or as low as GHc 25,000.\u201d<\/p>\n