Access to safe drinking water is still a major challenge confronting several communities in the Wenchi Municipality of the Bono region even though there has been some interventions by various governments.

Communities such as Adeammra and Tangbakrom are heavily depending on unwholesome water from streams and other unorthodox sources for domestic use.

A visit to Adeammra reveals that the people in the community mostly attend hospital at Wenchi every week with stomach upset, due to the contaminated water they drink.

In November last year, JoyNews reported that the population of mainly settler farmers had no choice but to continue depending on streams such as Techerebete and Adaagye for water daily.

After the publication, JoyNews learnt that the late chief of Akrobi went to the community and queried the people for speaking to the media without informing him about their plight.

Almost a year on, access to basic amenities such as safe drinking water remains a headache to community members of Adeammra near Akrobi in the Wenchi Municipal area.

Women and their children are compelled to draw water for use at home from the two streams although, the water at a cursory look appears to be contaminated.

Residents say children have been complaining of waterborne diseases but there is nothing they can do about the situation.

The leader of Adeammra community, Kwame Bona-Ib, intimated that the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration started drilling a borehole for the community but could not be completed before leaving office in 2016.

He said officials from the current New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) government also visited the area to start another borehole of their own but it has also stalled for almost two years now.  

“We do not have water here, so our women walk for about 2 kilometer before getting unwholesome water for use.

The NDC people started with a borehole and did not finish but since NPP also took over, some men I know as their officials came to tell us that the previous borehole is not good so they also started to drill another one and here we are, still struggling to get potable water,” Mr Bona-Ib narrated.

He further added “if we have done something wrong, I plead on behalf of my people for forgiveness and I call on the authorities to come and complete the two abandoned borehole projects because we are also Ghanaians”.

For the people of Adeammra community in the Wenchi Municipality of the Bono region, provision of potable water is high on their needs and wants list since water they say is life.