Krachiwura calls for construction of water treatment plant for his people

The President of Oti Regional House of Chiefs and the Overlord of Krachi, Nana Mprah Besemuna III, has appealed to the government to find a long term solution to the water problem confronting the people of Krachi by building a water treatment plant at Kete Krachi or Chinderi.

According to Nana Mprah Besemuna, his people are currently depending on water fetched directly from the Volta Lake and Oti River, which poses major health threat to them.

Briefing the media about the situation at the traditional capital, KeteKrachi, Nana Mprah Besemuna   was surprised that past and present governments have not made any efforts to provide them with treated water from the Volta Lake and the Oti River.

He said population explosion has made the use of boreholes outmoded. He cited the Krachi Senior High School with about two thousand six hundred students population and yet depending on a few boreholes.

He also referenced KeteKrachi and said with a population of over thirty thousand people, they cannot depend on borehole for supply of water.

According to Nana Mprah Besemuna, the non availability of water treatment plant at Krachi beats normal reasoning because water treatment plant was built at Kpong in the Eastern region , which currently supplies water to Accra but same could not be done at Krachi to provide water for the people. Similar water treatment plant could be built at Dambai to provide potable water to other parts of the Oti region, where potable water still remains a scarce commodity.

Nana Mprah Besemuna regretted that though MPs in the area are aware of the situation, they have all failed the people as they have kept quite.

“What would be the justification that water treatment plant has been built at Kpong to provide to Accra but the people of Krachi with two water bodies do not have similar treatment plant?

To Nana Mprah Besemuna, since the residents of Accra did not contribute in terms of money for the building of the Kpong Dam, it would be wrong for his people to be called upon to contribute money towards construction of water treatment plant.

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