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Residents of Akyem Aperade Railway Station Area in the Birim South District, would benefit from a 25,000 Ghana Cedis water project. This follows the commencement of a project to reconnect pipe lines in the area, which were destroyed about three years ago. The pipe lines were destroyed during the rehabilitation of a feeder road leading to the area and since then the people had been without pipe borne water. The situation had brought about acute water shortage especially, during the dry season. Eastern Regional Minister, Dr Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi, announced the commencement of the project to the people at a mini-durbar at Akyem-Aperade on Tuesday. He called on the people to show more interest in development projects in their areas so that they could quickly raise the alarm when things are going wrong. The Regional Minister urged the people to bear with the assembly as it strived to provide basic amenities to make the area a better place to live in. Dr Apea-Kubi informed the people that by the third week of March, the biometric voters� registration exercise would start and therefore appealed to all qualified Ghanaian citizens to register to be able to exercise their franchise during the forth-coming general elections. Baafour Mensah Takyi, the Birim South District Chief Executive, appealed to traders who sell their wares on market days to sell in the market stalls and stop trading on the roads. He assured the people that the Assembly would work hard towards the provision of their basic needs During an open forum, the women complained that during the dry season, they had to wake up at 0100 hours to look for water. They also appealed to the Assembly to provide the area with a public place of convenience and to rehabilitate their deplorable road. The Regional Minister and his entourage later inspected classroom blocks, dormitories, staff bungalows and assembly hall under construction at the new site of Achiase Senior High School.