WATER SHORTAGE HITS YENDI

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 Yendi is a town and the capital of Yendi Municipal district, district in the Northern Region of north Ghana. Yendi has a 2012 settlement population of 52,008 people.



 Mr. Abdul-Majeed Chandoo, Assemblyman for Kumfong Electoral Area in the Yendi Municipality has appealed to the Regional Coordinating council to assist Yendi Township with water tankers to help supply water to the residents.
He said for the past two weeks the Ghana Water Company in Yendi had not pumped water to the township due to the drying up of River Dakar, the main source of domestic water for the area.
Mr. Chandoo made the appeal when he briefed the media at Yendi about the water situation.
He indicated that every day, men, women and school children carried yellow jerry-cans and drums looking for water from the few boreholes in the Municipality.
He said others travelled to Malzeri, about 10 kilometres  away, to fetch untreated water from the dam, adding that if care was not taken, people will be infected with water-borne diseases particularly guinea worm.
He indicated that with the continuous population growth of Yendi, the River Dakar could no longer supply enough water to the people especially during dry seasons.
He appealed to the Government to treat as a matter of urgency, the implementation of the Yendi Town Water System project by which the township will be connected to River Oti which is 241 kilometers away, as the main source of domestic water supply for Yendi.
According to the Assemblyman that will be the only solution to Yendi’s annual water shortage problem.
Mr. Chandoo said with the construction of the Eastern Corridor Road the population of Yendi will increase since people are acquiring plots to put up residential houses and hotels to do business.
When Mr. Adam Shaibu, the Manager of Yendi Municipal Ghana water Company was contacted he said the Yendi Municipal Assembly had been informed about the problem.
According to Mr Shaibu, the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Issah Zakaria was soliciting support from the contractor constructing the Eastern Corridor Road to dredge the river to increase its water holding capacity and open up the intake gate which was currently blocked by mud to make the flow of water easier.
Mr. Adam said River Dakar was heavily silted and would require serious dredging to increase its storage capacity.
He appealed to the Assembly and the traditional authorities to stop people from farming along the banks of River Dakar, saying that it was the main cause of siltation.


Around the world, 748 million people face a daily struggle to access enough good quality water. Having no choice but to drink dirty water, and lacking enough for washing, cooking, cleaning and food production, they get sick and their education and livelihoods suffer.
Two things are critical for water security: good quality, well managed water resources and effective water supply services. Water resources cannot be easily accessed without pumps, pipes, taps, tanks and skilled people to manage them as part of a service. Similarly, water supply services alone are of little use without water resources. If either is unavailable or unreliable, people will not be water secure.
All of the fresh water resources we depend on come from the natural environment. Rain flows in rivers and is stored in lakes, the soil or vast underground layers of rock called aquifers. The quantity and quality of available water can vary over time because of changes in the natural environment or through the influence of human activity. Natural disasters also have an impact on the quantity and quality of available water as well as the continuity of services.
A number of factors can combine to threaten water security:

  • Natural climate variability
  • Human induced climate change
  • Population increases and migration
  • Settlement of hazard-prone land
  • Poor service provision
  • Uncontrolled discharge of pollutants into water
  • Exclusion because of caste, race, social status or political affiliation
Many of these threats can be managed to ensure that their impact is minimal, but often the political will and institutional capacity does not exist to do so. As a result, hundreds of millions of people remain without access to this basic human right.

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