ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR THE YOUNG MAN FROM BOLE. Govt exceeds water supply target ahead of time In fulfilment of NDC manifesto promise for attaining water for all by 2020 and for accelerated construction of housing units in all settlements. Page 57&58 Govt has achieved 85 per cent urban water coverage which exceeds the projected 76 per cent target by 2015, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing has said. The projected achievement, which is a year ahead of schedule, was based on the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) conducted by the United Nations (UN) and the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). Addressing the ministry’s turn of meet-the-press series in Accra yesterday, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Alhaji Collins Dauda, said the current urban water demand is 257 million gallons a day (MGD), while delivery is 156 (MDG), leaving a deficit of 101MGD. According to him, out of the 101 urban water deficit, the Greater Accra Region represented 63MGD. Alhaji Dauda attributed the achievement to the project that has been completed two years ahead of time. Other projects, he said , included the Kpong water intake rehabilitation project which is expected to produce 3.3MGD, the Accra -Tema Metropolitan Area Water Supply Project, expected to produce 9.2 MGD, while the Teshie-Nungua desalination water project is also expected to add on 13.2 MGD. All those projects, he said, had been successfully completed and were awaiting inauguration. Together, the projects will add on 65.7 MGD to the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, exceeding the deficit by 2.7MGD. The projects, he said, included the Kpong Water Expansion Project Phase 2, Weija Water Supply expansion and Asutsuare Water Supply Project. He said, as part of measures to improve rural water supply, the government was also delivering 20,000 boreholes over a five-year period from the Consolidated Fund, which has already begun this year. Alhaji Dauda said currently 1,115 boreholes, fitted with pumps at a cost of GHc17million had been constructed in various rural areas. He said the government had introduced various affordable housing projects nationwide which were all progressing steadily at various levels of completion. The projects include the 4,720 affordable housing project located in five regions comprising the Greater Accra , Ashanti, Northern, Upper West and Upper East. Others include the Kpong , Borteyman, Koforidua, Tamale and Wa affordable housing projects.
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