Ghana Water Limited (GWL) says it currently lacks the operational capacity to guarantee a 24-hour water supply to all consumers, noting that it is managing available resources to ensure that communities receive water, even if intermittently.
The company explained that the elevation of communities also plays a significant role in water distribution, with residents in higher-lying areas experiencing greater difficulties accessing water compared to those in lower-lying locations.
Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, November 10, GWL’s Chief Manager for Corporate Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Michael Tawiah Klutse, said communities situated at higher elevations require additional measures to generate sufficient pressure to pump water through the distribution network.
He explained that water flows more easily to lower-lying communities, while supplying higher-altitude areas requires additional operational interventions.
Mr Klutse added that the company’s existing operational limitations make it difficult to ensure a continuous and uninterrupted water supply to every consumer.
“We don’t have the capacity to serve every single person 24/7 at the moment. What we have is what we are managing for everybody to get something,”
“If an area is a bit at elevations that are higher than our normal flow, we need to put in interventions to be able to build up pressure to those area” he said.
