Millions of Ghanaians living in several communities across the country now have access to safe and purified drinking water at the most affordable price under an initiative by WaterHealth Ghana, a wholly owned subsidiary of WalterHealth International in partnership with local assemblies and communities though a Public Private Partnership model.

WaterHealth Ghana was established in 2007 to provide safe, scalable and affordable drinking water to underserved communities.

In the last eight (8) years of its operation, WaterHealth Ghana has successfully installed and now operating over thirty (30) WaterHealth Centers across seven (7) regions of the country, which serves close to 0.50 million people with safe  water.

This became known during a tour of one of the company’s WaterHealth Centers situated at Dome (in the Greater Accra region) by a section of the media, community leaders as well as representatives of WaterHealth on Wednesday 29th July 2015.

Addressing the guests, Mr. Vikas Shah, the Chief Operating Officer of WaterHealth International, indicted that WaterHealth has been the pioneer of Public Private Community Partnerships (PPCP) in the world and has developed the model to the highest degree of sophistication from a regulatory, legal, construction, operational, marketing and sustainability standpoint.

“WaterHealth has a footprint of over five hundred (500) plants with operations in Ghana, India, Liberia Nigeria and Bangladesh serving a population of five (5) million consumers with over sixty (60) million liters or purified water. WaterHealth is pursuing an audacious goal of serving about hundred (100) million customers in the underserved communities by 2020. Our brand, Dr. Water was launched in 2011, and currently the only community water play in the world”, he added.

WaterHealth implements a six (6) stage world class purification process that is augmented by its patented UV Waterworks unit. The Reverse Osmosis (RO) system removes all the unwanted contaminants including undesirable chemicals/salt in the water making it sweet and drinkable.

The water is then passed through the patented UV Waterworks unit which deactivates all the microbiological contamination present in the raw water.

The treated water is finally tested as per WaterHealth Ghana’s benchmark standards in the WaterHealth captive laboratory to ensure that the water quality strictly meets or exceeds the World Health Organization and Ghanaian potable water standards.

WaterHealth’s technology is designed to recover up to seventy present (70%) of the water and the rejected water is used for landscaping and backwash thereby ensuring zero wastage of water.