By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has revealed that it currently uses ten times more chemicals refining water at most of its various water treatment plants before distributing due to the negative impact of illegal small-scale mining (Galamsey).
According to the urban water distributing company, the current turbidity of water from most of its intake points is too high thus requiring more chemicals to refine it.
In an interview, the Public Relations Officer of the GWCL, Mr. Stanley Martey warned that the Company may shut down its machines, if the situation becomes persists.
“We are using ten times more of the chemicals required to refine the water before we pump them for distribution. When it becomes too much to bear we will shut down our machines.
“It’s a serious issue and we need to do something about it. If things continue this way we would have to import water to Ghana”, according to Stanley Martey.
