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With the vision to provide safe, scalable and affordable drinking water across Ghana, WaterHealth Ghana (WHG) has established a new water treatment plant at Dome, a suburb in Accra to feed the drinking need of the people there. The company believes in the decentralized way of feeding water to the local people. Through this module, they set up a plant in a locality, extract water from a single location within that geography and use it to feed the local people. In the last eight years of its operations, WHG has successfully installed and currently operates over 30 WaterHealth Centers across seven regions in Ghana. During a press briefing, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of WaterHealth International (WHI) Vikas Shah stated that with their state of the art technology, they have managed to provide access to safe drinking water to over five million people across the world. Narrowing it down to Ghana, the COO of WHI disclosed that close to 0.50 million of Ghanaians now have access to safe water due to their network of WaterHealth Centers in Ghana. Aside this, the company has a brave plan to install over one hundred more WHC s within the next two years in Ghana. �Ghana has lots of sources of natural water...it has the tropical climate to receive substantial amount of rainfall throughout the year...the issue in Ghana is that we don�t have clean and safe water for people�, he said. Water treated at the laboratories of WHI goes through six stages of world class purification process. They make use of the Reverse Osmosis system which removes all the unwanted contaminants in the water to make it sweet and drinkable. Microbiological contaminations present in the water are the deactivated when the water is passed through the patented UV Waterworks. To finalize the process, the treated water is tested as per the WHG�s benchmark to ensure it meets or exceeds the WHO and Ghanaian potable water standards. There is zero wastage of water as the company has in place a mechanism to recover 70% of the water and use the remaining for landscaping and backwash.