{"id":19263,"date":"2022-04-26T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/ghana-water-company-disconnects-illegal-connections-of-water-sellers"},"modified":"2022-04-26T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:38:31","slug":"ghana-water-company-disconnects-illegal-connections-of-water-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-water-company-disconnects-illegal-connections-of-water-sellers","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Water Company disconnects illegal connections of water sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>The Accra East Regional Office of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has disconnected illegal water pipelines built by two water suppliers (sellers) at the Adjiringanor-Madina Nsamanpom area, in the Accra North-East District.<\/p>\n

The sellers, who operate opposite the \u201cIntelligent Minds International School,\u201d had illegally connected 12-pipelines and 10-pipelines respectively in addition to their one legally connected pipelines.<\/p>\n

Mr Paul Akpanya, the Regional Distribution Manager of the Office, said the suppliers, had by their misconduct denied the residents in the operating community and surrounding communities access to good water flow in their homes.<\/p>\n

That, widened the market of the suppliers as they distributed water to the same residents via poly tanks in their homes for sale, he said. Mr Akpanya explained that the Non-Revenue team of the GWCL two weeks ago, discovered around the A & C Shopping Mall area, East Legon, that a water supplier had illegally connected five pipes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe disconnected the pipes, invited him to our office, gave him a bill to settle and when he is not able to, we will take him to court. That\u2019s how we do it, we treat it like we treat all illegal connections and bypasses,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ve disconnected all illegal ones and left the legal connection for them, which will have a metre to make them pay for the actual volume of water they consume. From today, we can tell you, everybody in this neighborhood will start getting water,\u201d Mr Akpanya added.<\/p>\n

He explained that the GWCL would need to calculate the total diameter of pipelines illegally fixed in order to calculate the volumes and the loss run by the Company.<\/p>\n

The Regional Distribution Manager said the exercise was triggered by constant complaints from residents in Ogbojo and Adjiringanor over their poor and\/or no water supply to their homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we made it a point to find out the reason because we are working very well and supply water according to our management plan, so we didn\u2019t understand why water gets to certain places and not certain places.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo our investigation made us find out they have connected illegal pipelines to tanks underground. And once their tank is down, it means the water drains down into the tanks and the residents whose poly tanks are on their roofs will never get the water,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Those involved in the illegal connection chastised the Water Company for not informing them of the disconnection. One of them said: \u201cThe Water Company should have alerted us they were coming here. We work with them and we are not enemies to them. This demolition exercise will deprive many of our customers of water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some residents expressed joy and satisfaction at the disconnection of the illegal pipes in anticipation that water will flow into their homes afterwards.<\/p>\n

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