Managers of Ghana�s water distribution system say the ongoing water rationing for residents of the capital may only end in 2014.
Communications Manager of the Ghana Urban Water Limited (GUWL), Stanley Martey, has said the water crisis would endure until 20014 when work on the Kpong water treatment plant is expected to be completed.
He said that once operational, the roughly $300 million plant will purify almost 45 million gallons of water per day.
That, he said, will be a major boost to the Greater Accra Region�s current daily rate of water supply.
There has latterly been an aggravated water rationing in Accra and parts of Tema owing to what officials say are defects in four filters at the Weija treatment plant.
Mr. Martey, who was contributing to discussions on Joy FM yesterday, said that this latest rationing exercise, which is expected to last two weeks, will allow the GUWL time to institute interim measures to resolve the problem. After that, he explained, the intensified exercise will end and the routine rationing which residents have endured for years will return.
He added that a project to reconstruct the badly damaged filters has also been proposed and is expected to take 4-6 months to complete.
However, the Kpong water plant will represent a long-time solution to Accra�s water problems, he assured.
�It will improve on coverage of water from the current 60 percent to about 90 percent, which means that the rationing programme may even end,� he stated.
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