In Kparekpare, a farming community in the Krachi East District of the Volta Region, residents are compelled to drink from muddy, stinking water after their only borehole broke down..
The farming community which is well known of its yam production’s main water source is a muddy dam.
The residents go to fetch the dirty water after pigs have swim in it.
Adom FM’s Mubarak Yakubu who has visited the community reports that community also shares the same water source with cattle.
Mubarak however says he couldn’t stand the stink emanating from the water which Kparekpare residents call drinking water.
It however serves as water source for other neighbouring communities as well.
Some residents who were spotted fetching from the dirty water say they treat it by dipping alum (Aluminum Sulfate) in it for the dirt to settle under it before use.
Chief of Kparekpare Traditional Land Nana Owusu Attah III says many of his people have been complaining of stomach upset after drinking the water.
He says other have suffered skin infections.
Residents and traditional rulers of Kparekpare in the Krachi East District of the Volta Region are appealing to government among other philanthropies to come to their rescue by producing them portable drinking water.
By: Hwenebobo Newsstand
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