A Hydrologist has warned residents along dams and large water bodies to start evacuating.

Speaking in an interview on the AM Show on Thursday, a hydrologist with the Kumasi Technical University, Dr. Anthony Twumasi said heavier and unpredictable rains are expected.

Owing to the changing climate patterns, the hydrologist predicted that the intensity of the rains will be higher and likely to cause flooding along water bodies and dams.

According to him, if dams are not desilted soon, the rains will cause more havoc than has been observed in the past.

“Because of climate change, this is changing and there are a lot of things that will happen. We are still thinking that the rains will come and that will happen.

“The rains are changing because of the intensity, the intensity of rainfall is very high .. and because of people who want to live along the areas, we are going to have some of these problems now and again,” he said.

His assertion is in the wake of scores of residents in the Ga South municipality of the Greater Accra Region being displaced with several others trapped in their homes at Ashalaja, Weija, Oblogo and Tetegu areas as a result of flooding.

In Weija, residents suffered flooding after water was spilled from the dam under emergency.

Speaking on the same platform, Chief Basin Officer of the Water Resources Commission, Dr. Ronald Abrahams noted that the works on dredging process are underway.

“We have also taken note of the silting and we are working very seriously on the dredging process… we are on the pre-feasibility study,” he noted.

Meanwhile, the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) says it is currently in the process of enhancing its early warning system in flood-prone areas to avoid the level of destruction witnessed in Weija and in the North.