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The Sekyere Hemang Water Treatment Plant in the Central Region is on the brink of total shutdown - choked by heavy silt that is crippling operations and causing acute water shortages across parts of the region.
Workers now spend hours each day manually shoving thick mud barely 20 meters from the plant’s raw water intake on the River Pra.
But with galamsey activities upstream worsening siltation and turgidity levels, the Sekyere Hemang Headworks is fast losing the battle.
Communities including Cape Coast, Komenda, Elmina and surrounding areas are already enduring the brunt.
JoyNews' Emmanuel Dzivenu has more in our continuing series, “Dear Mahama, #StopGalamsey.”
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