Galamsey: We’re spending 10 times more to treat water in Ashanti Region – GWCL



 Moses Paintsil, the Eastern Regional Water Quality Assurance Manager for Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), has made frightening disclosures about the sums his organization spends on water treatment in various parts of the nation, particularly the Ashanti region. 


The majority of the nation's water bodies have been ruined by illicit mining, sometimes known as "galamsey." 


In Konongo, in the Ashanti Region, he noted rising costs for water treatment plants, revealing that the water company now pays 10 times more to buy chemicals to clean water for inhabitants in the area. 


According to Mr. Paintsil, GWCL must spend GHC 79,540 per month to provide residents of Konongo and its surroundings with clean water, compared to GHC 8,000 spent in the previous month.

He stated that GWCL now spends GH89,598 compared to GH29,785 in 2016 for water treatment in Odaso, also in the Ashanti region.


"In Sekyere Hemang in the Central Region, we are spending roughly GH93,150 on a monthly basis merely to purify the water," Mr. Paintsil remarked during Citi TV's Galamsey Dialogue titled "Galamsey and Ghana's Water Security." We used roughly GH 60,750 in 2016. In the Ashanti Region, in a place like Konongo, we were spending about GH 8,000 per month on water treatment chemicals in 2016, but today we are spending GH 79,540gh, which is ten times as much. In Odaso, also in the Ashanti Region, we were using GH29,785 in 2016, but now we are consuming GH89,598 in 2022, he bemoaned.

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