Sekondi–Takoradi Water Woes To End As Daboase Water Treatment Hits 98%
The Minister for Works and Housing, Hon. Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, has assured residents of the Sekondi–Takoradi Metropolis and surrounding communities that government is on course to significantly improve water supply, as the expansion of the Daboase Water Treatment Plant reaches 98 percent completion.
The assurance was given during a two-day working visit to the Western Region, where the Minister inspected ongoing expansion works at the Daboase and Inchaban Water Treatment Plants.
According to Hon. Adjei, the inspection team first visited Dabuase to assess progress on the water projects currently underway.
He disclosed that the Daboase Water Treatment Plant expansion is now about 98 percent complete, with only a few remaining works to be finalized.
This means there is just a few percentage left to complete. All things being equal, we are looking at May,” he added.
The Minister further assured residents of Sekondi-Takoradi, and surrounding industrial and residential areas that government is fully aware of the persistent water challenges in the metropolis and remains committed to addressing them.
The Daboase Water Treatment Plant expansion forms part of a major government water supply project being implemented through the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources and the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to address water shortages in the Sekondi–Takoradi Metropolis and nearby towns.
The project involves the construction of a new conventional water treatment facility capable of producing 22 million gallons of treated water per day, a significant increase from the old plant’s capacity of approximately 6 million gallons per day.
The project is being executed by Austrian construction firm Strabag Engineering under a €70 million investment that commenced in May 2022.
Providing technical details on the project, the Project Manager for Strabag Engineering, Mr. Vlad Falup, explained that raw water is conveyed to the treatment plant through a 1,200-millimetre transmission pipeline from the intake point.
He said the water first enters a distribution chamber, which is designed to split water flow between the current phase of the project and future expansions.
Story by Nana Fynn@W/R.
