{"id":2615,"date":"2020-04-06T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/nu\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2020-04-06T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:02:11","slug":"prampram-residents-defy-social-distancing-advice-over-unusual-water-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/prampram-residents-defy-social-distancing-advice-over-unusual-water-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Prampram residents defy social distancing advice over \u2018unusual\u2019 water shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source: https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/ | 13 March 2020<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Residents of Ningo-Prampram have for about a month now been experiencing a major shortage of water supply to the area due to reasons unknown to them.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the unusual nature of the shortage has sent the area into a crisis and are therefore calling on authorities to quickly address the situation.<\/p>\n<p>A resident who spoke to ghanaweb.com on condition of anonymity said there are rumours authorities are diverting the water to a private water bottling company in the area. This, the resident said, is the main reason for the acute shortage.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a widely shared video post on Facebook by a resident of the area, some desperate residents of Ningo-Prampram witnessed a glimmer of hope with a water tank arriving to provide them with water on March 29.<\/p>\n<p>It was said by a resident it took the intervention of the NPP parliamentary candidate for the area, Alex Martey to supply the residents with water supply on that day.<\/p>\n<p>But it is interesting to note the desperate residents seemed to have forgotten about the social distancing advice given out by health professionals in the wake of the novel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;outbreak in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The 8-minute-long video captures some residents of the area with almost all their water storage items out in the open to fetch water from the tank.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) announced there will be an interruption in water supplies in some areas of the country from Tuesday, March 4, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The GWCL says the development will allow for technicians to undergo maintenance work at the Kpong Water Treatment Plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/ | 13 March 2020 Residents of Ningo-Prampram have for about a month now been experiencing a major shortage of water supply to the area due to reasons unknown to them. According to them, the unusual nature of the shortage has sent the area into a crisis and are therefore calling on authorities to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19-public-response"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}