{"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":"

Source: https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/ | 13 March 2020<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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 Coronavirus<\/a> outbreak in Ghana.<\/p>\n

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

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

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":"

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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t