Mr Kwaku Botwe, Deputy Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), on Friday said that effective water supply in any given country was multi-sectoral and did not depend solely on the water company. He explained that the flow of water in an electric bore-hole in a given community required the services of the Electricity Company, Department of Lands and collaborative efforts from the citizenry. Mr Botwe made the comments when he led a team made up of the Board of Directors of the GWCL and the management to inspect the mechanization of boreholes in selected communities in the Greater Accra Region and Aburi in the Eastern Region. Mechanization of a borehole involves connecting it to electricity, an overhead tank, transmission lines, laying of pipes among others to ensure that water flows. The boreholes are part of the interim measure by the water company to ensure distribution of water as well as provide relief to citizens in these times of water shortage. Mr Botwe said: "At some places in the city nobody wants the booster stations sited in front of his house and that even causes a problem." At the Tantra Hill site where the team inspected three boreholes, Mr Alhassan Balo, Drilling Engineer at the site, said the borehole could supply about 200 gallons of water per minute and was about 46 metres deep. He said the water was allowed to flow 20 hours everyday to ensure that people in the community as well as those in Taifa and parts of Dome were supplied with water. Mr Balo said pumps to the boreholes would be installed soon. Last Tuesday, Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, announced that GWCL had drilled 13 boreholes in various parts of Accra to supplement water supplies to areas mostly hit by the current acute water shortage in the city Work on six of them at Tantra Hill, Dome and Ashongman was in progress and would be completed in two weeks. Source: GNA