Monday, December 2, 2013

HUMAN SECURITY DEPT. INTERVENES IN ACCRA WATER CRISIS

By Edmund Mingle
The Human Security Department of National Security has intervened in the severe water crisis that has hit Osu and surrounding areas in Accra.
 
As part of the intervention, the Department has been supplying free water daily with its tankers to households and shops in the affected areas.

The move has provided relief for the residents who hitherto grappled with the severe water shortage, which the Ghana Water Company says it is working to rectify.

Major Ignatius Awuni, Officer in Charge of the Human Security Department told the Ghanaian Times yesterday that his outfit has been supplying the water for since last Wednesday.

According to him the intervention was to help provide relief for the residents until the normal water supply had been restored.

He said the water tankers from the Prisons and Fire Services would be released to join the relief operations from today.

He said as a long term measure, the Department would drill boreholes in the area to supplement the water supply.

“The borehole can provide support in times of such water shortages,” he said, adding that the department’s borehole drilling team has started preparatory works for the boreholes project.

Residents the Ghanaian Times spoke interacted with were very appreciative of the relief operation by the Human Security Department.






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