The MCE for Keta, Emmanuel Gemegah, says the water crisis affecting Anyako and surrounding communities will soon be a thing of the past as the Municipality readies to commission the Anyako water project.

The Anyako water project according to the MCE will provide 60,000 litres of water per day to be distributed across Anyako and surrounding communities.

“The Anyako Council of Chiefs in collaboration with Keta Municipal Assembly has successfully found water for Anyako and other communities within it’s environs. In the quest to solve the potable water problem, several attempts have been made to get water for the people of Anyako and its environs but all attempts proved futile,” Mr Gemegah said

He noted that the Municipality was largely dependent on water from wells, which he said, are unsafe for human use. However, with the change in leadership and management at the district assembly level, there has been renewed effort to getting potable water for the people of Anyako.

According to Mr Gemegah, by dint of hard work and perseverance through exploration of all possible means, a 120m depth borehole was sunk which yielded 2,000 liters of water per hour for the people and despite the discovery of water the community was unable to use the water due to its salinity.

“Despite the discovery of this large volume of water, the community was unable to use the water because of its salinity. Therefore, the need to process the water to remove the salinity and to increase the yield through the use of reverse osmosis and declinator membrane,” Mr Gemegah said.

Mr Emmanuel Gemegah said the search for good drinking water in the area for over two decades would be a thing of the past and “life will return to normalcy."

A total of ₵320,000.00 has been expended on the water project and would be commissioned in July hopefully by the Vice President, Dr Bawumia.

Residents of these communities are delighted about that they would be able to have regular flow of water for the first time after several years of water crises.