By Elizabeth Larkwor Baah
Tema, Oct. 22, GNA – The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) has donated two water storage tanks with a ten-thousand litre capacity to the Padmore electoral area, Tema Community One.
The presentation is to aid with the provision of clean water to residents when water supply is curtailed by the Ghana Water Company.
Mr Kennedy Monarh, Principal Marketing and Corporate Affairs Officer, GPHA, presented the tanks to Mr Charles Amos, Assemblyman of the area, and said the donation formed part of GPHA’s corporate social responsibility to transform the lives of the community members in the areas they operate from.
Mr Monarh stated that “it is part of GPHA’s pillars of corporate social responsibilities that encapsulate health, and so if people do not have potable water to drink, the result is that there will be waterborne diseases, and the people will fall sick.”
He said the GPHA deemed it fit to come to the aid of the area after the assemblyman made an appeal to the company on the community’s dire need of storage.
According to him, the GPHA truly cared about the well-being of Ghanaians, especially having access to potable water to promote good health, proper sanitation, and improve livelihoods in Tema.
Mr Amos, speaking to the Ghana New Agency (GNA), lauded the GPHA for the gesture, adding that even though he appealed for one, they provided them with two, noting that the water situation in the area continued to worsen, hence the need to make the appeal for the support.
He described the donation as a game changer as residents stayed for weeks without water flowing through their taps, which compelled community members to rely on private water sellers or sachet water for their activities.
He said it would be run on a commercial basis as the water tanks had been linked to the supply from Ghana Water Company Limited, for which bill payment would be required, adding that one of the tanks would be positioned to serve residents of sites one, 12, and 21 while the other would serve sites 14, 15, and 16.
The Assemblyman pledged to ensure the tanks would be well taken care of to benefit future generations.
GNA