THE people of Anfoeta Tsebi in the Ho municipality of the Volta Region have, through self-help, provided themselves with pipe-borne water at an estimated cost of GH¢45,000.
The project was inaugurated by the Deputy Minister of Transport, Mrs Dzifa Ativor.
Through the industry of the people, water has been directed from a gravity water facility provided them by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) some 14 years ago through a piped system to 11 standpipes in the town.
Before the pipe system, the people had to travel about three kilometres to fetch water from the source.
In an address, Mrs Ativor reiterated the government’s intention to extend its better Ghana agenda to every nook and cranny of the country.
She asked the youth to embrace the youth-in-agriculture programme with all their strength, since it would stop them from trooping to the urban areas to add up to the unemployment there.
Mrs Ativor told them that whatever they produced on their farms would be bought by the Buffer Stock Company set up by the government to ensure that they had access to markets.
The deputy minister announced that the Dzolokpuita-Bume road which passes through the town had been awarded on contract to Messrs Muudu Construction and that work would start soon.
In his keynote address, Mr E. F. Boateng, the Volta Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), commended the people for keeping the facility provided them 14 years ago functioning and improving upon it. “This speaks for itself the value you place on what has been given to you,” he said.
He was sure that once the facility had been inaugurated and handed over to them, they would assume full responsibility for it and manage it as they had done the gravity facility.
“The facility has to be operated in a sustainable way for generations yet unborn to come and enjoy it,” he urged them.
Mr Boateng advised that since the components of the facility would surely break down one day, it was necessary to generate revenue for repairs and maintenance for continuous access.
Consequently, he commended them for adopting a pay-as-you–fetch system which was the best way to manage the system.
He noted that as the provision of water meant improvement in health, they should practise personal hygiene and observe basic sanitation rules to make the package complete.
“Let us go a step further from drinking potable water to washing our hands with soap at critical times,” he admonished.
In his welcoming address, Mr Nelson Bright Klu, the Assembly Member for the area, commended the self-help spirit of the people.
Through that spirit, he said, they had constructed a day-care centre, a three-unit classroom block for the primary school and an electrification project.
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