VRA supports Adidome Water Project

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has given 81.5 million cedis toward the Adidome Water Project that would provide potable water to 15,000 people in the South and North Tongu Districts. An official statement in Accra on Wednesday named communities to benefit from the project as Akyemfo, Adidome Township, Tsetsekope, Avakpedome, Kgogede and Anekpo.

The statement, signed by Mrs. Gertrude Koomson, VRA's acting director of Public Affairs, said the assistance forms part of the organisation's commitment to assist development of the communities within the Lower Volta Basin area. The project was identified, as a major need, following the completion of a four-year study.

It said VRA's contribution was to enable the beneficiaries to secure counterpart funding for the project, being funded substantially by GTZ, a German non-governmental agency. The Community Water and Sanitation Agency would implement the project.

"Over the years, VRA has also been undertaking dredging activities at the Volta Estuary and Keta Channel to improve the salinity of water in the Volta River in order to reduce the prevalence of Schistosomiasis infection in the Basin and other public health interventions for the people," it said.

Schistosomiasis is a chronic disease, caused by schistosomes, a parasite, and characterised in humans by disorder of the liver, urinary bladder, lungs or central nervous system.