Residents in the Parambo-Sawaba community in the Pru District of the Brong Ahafo Region have to share the only source of water in the community with animals whilst a water treatment plant which has been serving the community for several years rots away.
The Parambo- Sawaba Water Treatment Plant which has been serving water for residents of the community for years has been left for over 8 years unattended to.
The community with a population of about 17,000 who are predominately farmers and petty traders, have to use the same water body; the Volta Lake for all activities which has been the case since the abandoning of the water treatment in the community in 2010 after its pump was destroyed eight years ago when the Volta Lake overflowed its banks and destroyed the pump.
The water treatment plant which cost about GHC189,000 was built in 2006 and used to supply 2,000 gallons of water daily for community.
Currently as it stands, the nets at the pump are torn, light to the place has been disconnected and reptiles have taken over the place.
Residents of the community have been left with no choice than to drink raw, untreated water from the Volta Lake which it shares with cattle on a daily basis.
In 2015, Parambo- Sawaba recorded 32 Cholera cases which claimed the lives of 13 people, a situation that to a large extent can be linked to the unhygienic water its residents have been left with to consume.
Suleiman Yusuf Baadi, the Assembly Member for Parambo- Sawaba in an interview with Ghanaweb said the situation is having a dire consequences on the township.
"This nice water treatment plant has been abandoned all these years. The residents of Parambo-Sawaba have to drink raw water from the Volta Lake. In 2015 there were many deaths here because of the outbreak of Cholera in the community," Mr. Baadi revealed.
Suleiman Yusif Baadi is urging government to intervene in the situation as well as investors whose contribution to the reconstruction of the water treatment plant he says will do a lot of good for the community.
A resident of Parambo- Sawaba Lakeside, Kwame Mawutor Agbevor recounts that most residents have stomachache as a result of drinking raw water from the Volta Lake.
He called for the revival of the water treatment plant to save lives of the people from water-borne diseases.
